The Quebec Liberal Party is taking a major hit in public opinion as internal turmoil translates into a drop in voting intentions to the benefit of the Parti Québécois (PQ), according to the latest Léger–Quebecor poll released Wednesday.

This poll puts the Quebec Liberal party at 21 per cent voter intention, down six points from the last Léger poll. Dropping all the gains they had made as Premier François Legault continues to lose popularity. The PQ, meanwhile, is up seven points to 39 per cent.

Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec continues to sit in third place at 18 per cent support.

This most recent poll is also devastating for Liberal leader Pablo Rodriguez. When asked who would make the best Premier of Quebec, he dropped four points to 12 per cent.

PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon stands at 32 per cent, a six-point increase from the last poll.

“A poll is like a snapshot of a specific moment. If you take a photo during a storm, it’s really cloudy. If you take the same photo a little later, when the storm has passed, the sky will be clear,” said Pablo Rodriguez reacting to the poll at the National Assembly on Wednesday morning.

Street reactions echoed the sinking confidence shown in the numbers.

“I hope things will turn around so he can gain my confidence again,” one Montrealer told CityNews.

Another said, “I don’t really trust him anymore.”

A third added, “The problem with politics right now is you never know who’s telling the truth right now.”

Despite a jump to 28 per cent support in June shortly after Rodriguez became leader, analysts say the Liberals are now facing a deeper problem. With confidence eroding, the central question is shifting from whether the party can win next year’s election to whether they can win with Rodriguez at the helm.

“The issue for the Liberals at this point and for Pablo Rodriguez is to stop the bleeding, but they don’t have full control over the situation,” said Daniel Béland, director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.

The Quebec Liberals have been in crisis since parliamentary leader Marwah Rizqy fired her chief of staff, Geneviève Hinse, a close associate of Rodriguez, without consulting him first. Rodriguez suspended Rizqy from her parliamentary rol and on Tuesday, the Liberal leader expelled her from the caucus, he said, because she failed to explain the dismissal.  

Rodriguez has also faced serious allegations regarding his leadership race.

Regarding this conflict, 25 per cent of pollsters say they have more confidence in Marwah Rizqy, compared to 13 per cent for Pablo Rodriguez.

Among Liberal supporters, the numbers rise to 43 per cent for the Liberal leader and 12 per cent for Rizqy.

Only 17 per cent of respondents say they have confidence in Pablo Rodriguez’s leadership to rebuild the Liberal party. The figure rises to 61 per cent among Liberal supporters. 

“The poll that was published this morning is not news to us. We knew it was a hard couple of weeks for our political party. At the same time, what we’re feeling from our own supporters, from people who are involved in our party, is that they’re willing to work together. They’re willing to rally behind Pablo. They’re willing to rally behind our party, because they know that we have a government right now that is not palatable to a whole bunch of Quebecers,” said Liberal MNA André Fortin at the National Assembly Wednesday morning.

The web survey was conducted between Nov. 28 and Dec. 1, 2025 among 1042 Quebecers aged 18 and over. Respondents were chosen randomly from the online panel LEO. A probabilistic sample of this size would have a margin of error of +/- 3.04%, 19 times out of 20.

–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews