The debate over electoral reform has resurfaced in Quebec, with opposition parties raising alarm over projections indicating the ruling Coalition Avenir Québec could walk away with 100 of the province’s 125 seats next October.
Poll-aggregating website Qc125.com has Premier François Legault’s CAQ with about 42 percent support—which would translate into roughly 80 percent of the seats if current trends hold.
In response, Parti Québécois member Pascal Bérubé said last week Quebec was suffering from a “democratic crisis” and he blasted Legault’s government for abandoning its promise of electoral reform. The electoral system, Bérubé lamented, is producing an “unprecedented distortion between the real voting intentions and the representation to come in the next legislature.”
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