It’s the monthly CROP poll for La Presse, and it’s just about all bad news for Jean Charest. He had a long shot at pulling off a quick, tricky re-election, despite assorted travails, by going quickly: with the PQ mired in infighting, François Legault’s new made-up party high enough to do some serious vote-splitting (but weak enough to fade in the stretch), and a commission of inquiry into construction-industry shenanigansyet to begin its work, he might have hoped to benefit from opposition disarray and lock in victory, or at least non-catastrophic defeat, with a spring election.
All of that is slipping away now. …
Charest has been a more formidable political scrapper as premier than many ever would have believed, but this morning Pauline Marois is looking like Quebec’s next minority-government premier. Among the questions that come to mind is: How would the Harper government deal with a PQ government in Quebec? I have hunches. We may soon find out.
I’m interested in reading that article.
But I have a suspicion that Charest is more resilient than that, even now.
… but suppose Charest does lose. Does he go back to federal politics? If so, for which party?
