PQ’s numbers creep up as CAQ staunches slide in support: poll

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The Parti Québécois, which holds just three of the 125 seats in the National Assembly, is slowly but surely establishing itself as the most popular alternative to François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec, a new survey suggests.

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The online Léger poll conducted for the Journal de Montréal found the CAQ appeared to have put the brakes on a slide in popularity triggered by a series of unpopular decisions including dropping a campaign promise to link Quebec City and Lévis with a highway tunnel. The governing party polled 37 per cent in the latest survey, an increase of one percentage point over last month’s poll, but still four points below the 40.98 per cent garnered during last October’s general election that sent 90 CQ candidates to the National Assembly.

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But even if the PQ, which received 23 per cent in the new survey, trails the CAQ by 14 points, it has run up a more than eight-point jump in popularity compared with its showing in the last election (14.6 per cent).

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Québec solidaire’s showing in the latest poll indicates a more modest increase in support. The 16 per cent it logged in June is unchanged from last month’s poll and less than one point over its showing last October.

While the Quebec Liberals form the official opposition in the legislature with 19 seats, their support this month stood at just 13 per cent, one point down from May and from their level of support in the general election. The survey found 55 per cent of respondents who identified as Liberal supporters could not say who they would like to see take charge of their party, which has been leaderless since last November.

The survey found also that the Quebec Liberals are polling at just four per cent support among francophone voters.

The Quebec Conservative Party, which did not win any seats last October despite polling at 13 per cent, saw their support stand at nine per cent this month, a drop of one point since May.

The online survey of 1,042 Quebec adults was conducted between June 9-12 and can be considered to possess a margin of error of 3.03 per cent.

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