“I am going to be the prime minister of all Quebecers”, declared in English and French François Legault, during his victory speech on Monday evening, October 3, following the Quebec general elections. “It’s not a wave, it’s a CAQ tidal wave [pour CAQ, Coalition Avenir Québec] which swept over Quebec this time… except in Montreal”, notice The Press. By specifying that if Quebec is largely “painted CAQ blue” thanks to the votes of nearly 1.7 million voters, the“île [de Montréal] resists brush strokes”.
The Liberals find themselves with 21 MPs and retain their official opposition status by winning 14.6% of the vote, “the party’s worst electoral score in its 150 years of existence”, observe the Montreal Gazette. For their part, the sovereignists of the Parti Québécois – who have had several governments elected since the 1970s – garnered 14.9% of the vote but found themselves