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Duhaime calls for strategic vote to get him elected in Chauveau riding

"I want to speak to the electors of Chauveau to ask them to support the Conservative Party of Quebec as democrats,"

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Conservative Party of Quebec leader Éric Duhaime arrives for provincial leaders' debate at Radio-Canada in Montreal Thursday September 22, 2022.
Conservative Party of Quebec leader Éric Duhaime arrives for provincial leaders' debate at Radio-Canada in Montreal Thursday September 22, 2022. Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette

QUEBEC — Conservative Party of Quebec Leader went door-to-door Saturday in his riding to call for strategic voting to help get him elected to the National Assembly.

In Quebec City’s Chauveau riding, Duhaime called on Conservative activists who want to see a “real opposition” to François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec to vote for him.

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“I want to speak to the electors of Chauveau to ask them to support the Conservative Party of Quebec as democrats,” he said while speaking to journalists. “It’s important that we’re represented at the National Assembly and we want to avoid at all costs this electoral distortion of the century. I think that the conservative voice must be heard. It’s not true that we’re going to silence a fifth of Quebec’s voices.”

No poll has shown the Conservatives with 20 per cent support in the province, though some polls have shown the party in second or third place. Even with that support, it’s far from given the party, which has never elected anyone to the National Assembly, will win any seats in this election.

In Chauveau, Duhaime is challenging CAQ MNA Sylvain Lévesque, elected in 2018 with 47 per cent of the vote.

According to election prediction website Qc125, the riding is a tight race, with Lévesque a couple of points ahead.

“If we want real change in Quebec, it’s crucial to exercise your democratic right as a citizen,” Duhaime said. “We live in a democratic system, and democracy must start here in Chauveau the night of Oct. 3.”

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