ADQ won't form coalition if election serves up minority
CBC News | Posted: March 16, 2007 9:12 PM | Last Updated: March 16, 2007
ADQ Leader Mario Dumont said he's not ready to team up with any of Quebec's political parties if the March 26 election produces a minority government.
A Léger Marketing poll conducted this week suggests the Liberals are enjoying a slight lead in popular support, with the Parti Québécois and Action Démocratique du Québec neck and neck up a few points behind.
The three-way race has fuelled speculation about a possible minority government in Quebec, where voters have never elected one before.
But Dumont said he would not join forceswith another party to upset a minority winner.
"A coalition between the second and third [party], I'll never go there," he told the CBC in French during a campaign stop Friday in Laval.
Dumont said he's focusing on gaining more ground in ridings where his party has enjoyed a surge in the campaign.
"In this whole area around Montreal, there will be very interesting races. And we're part of it. But there's still a lot of work to do, to make it [into] seats."
PQ Leader André Boisclair said whether it is a minority or not, his government would forge ahead with plans for another sovereignty referendum.
"I feel the victory, I see it on the ground, I see more and more supporters helping us on the ground," he said while touring a school in the Gaspé.
Liberal Leader Jean Charest is not willing to discuss poll trends or muse on the possibility of a minority win on March 26.
"I don't comment on polls," he said in Rimouski. "We will form a majority government."