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Parti Québécois leader aiming for a majority with election days away

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The leader of the Parti Québécois is asking voters to give him a majority government, as his party continues to lead in the polls with just days to go before the provincial election.

Paul St-Pierre Plamondon delivered the message in separate morning radio show interviews in both English and French.

He says he needs a majority government to get things done and to implement his program.

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In an interview with English-language radio station CJAD, St-Pierre Plamondon said his party was considering the scenarios of either a minority or majority PQ government as serious possibilities.

St-Pierre Plamondon also told Radio-Canada today that his government would be handcuffed in a minority scenario, and called for a strong and stable government to reverse the damage from eight years of Coalition Avenir Québec leadership.

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Elsewhere on the campaign trail, Liberal Leader Charles Milliard is working to shore up support in the Eastern Townships region where he’s running for a seat, while Québec solidaire’s Ruba Ghazal is in Montreal to pitch a plan to ban evictions during the winter.

Quebecers go to the polls on Oct. 5.

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