Tapping into pandemic rage, upstart Quebec Conservative Party leader surges in the polls cbc.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cbc.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
MONTREAL The Conservative Party of Quebec has a new leader, and its someone with more name recognition than the party itself. “I want to stand up for ordinary people,” said columnist and radio host Eric Duhaime after winning the job with an overwhelming portion of the votes after a six-month race that was held entirely online. In his victory speech, the new leader of the right-wing party said he intends to defend those who “have been treated as toothless because they don t agree with what is being done by the government or who are being treated wrongly as conspiracy theorists or covidiots. by (Premier) Francois Legault and a media and political elite who have lost contact with the real world.”
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MONTREAL Fifteen years after its creation, Quebec solidaire (QS) must prepare to take power in 2022, according to the party s very first deputy, Amir Khadir, who hung up his political skates in 2018. In an interview on Saturday, Khadir, who was at the forefront of the founding of QS, was delighted that his initially marginal political party has become the major alternative on the left in Quebec. In 2006, the Quebec solidaire party was founded following the merger between the Union des forces progressistes (UFP), for which Khadir was spokesperson, and Option Citoyenne, Francoise David s feminist party. In its first electoral test in the 2007 general elections, the party obtained less than 4 per cent of the popular vote and failed to elect an MNA.