{"id":324762,"date":"2025-12-04T12:07:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324762\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T12:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:07:17","slug":"leader-pablo-rodriguez-takes-a-hit-in-the-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324762\/","title":{"rendered":"Leader Pablo Rodriguez takes a hit in the polls"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois (PQ), according to the latest L\u00e9ger\u2013Quebecor<\/a> poll released Wednesday.<\/p>\n

This poll puts the Quebec Liberal party at 21 per cent voter intention, down six points from the last L\u00e9ger poll. Dropping all the gains they had made as Premier Fran\u00e7ois Legault continues to lose popularity. The PQ, meanwhile, is up seven points to 39 per cent.<\/p>\n

Legault\u2019s Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec continues to sit in third place at 18 per cent support.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon stands at 32 per cent, a six-point increase from the last poll.<\/p>\n

\u201cA poll is like a snapshot of a specific moment. If you take a photo during a storm, it\u2019s really cloudy. If you take the same photo a little later, when the storm has passed, the sky will be clear,\u201d said Pablo Rodriguez reacting to the poll at the National Assembly on Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n

Street reactions echoed the sinking confidence shown in the numbers. <\/p>\n

\u201cI hope things will turn around so he can gain my confidence again,\u201d one Montrealer told CityNews. <\/p>\n

Another said, \u201cI don\u2019t really trust him anymore.\u201d <\/p>\n

A third added, \u201cThe problem with politics right now is you never know who\u2019s telling the truth right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2019s election to whether they can win with Rodriguez at the helm. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe issue for the Liberals at this point and for Pablo Rodriguez is to stop the bleeding, but they don\u2019t have full control over the situation,\u201d said Daniel B\u00e9land, director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. <\/p>\n

The Quebec Liberals have been in crisis since parliamentary leader Marwah Rizqy fired her chief of staff, Genevi\u00e8ve 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. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Rodriguez has also faced serious allegations regarding his leadership race.<\/p>\n

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

Among Liberal supporters, the numbers rise to 43 per cent for the Liberal leader and 12 per cent for Rizqy.<\/p>\n

Only 17 per cent of respondents say they have confidence in Pablo Rodriguez\u2019s leadership to rebuild the Liberal party. The figure rises to 61 per cent among Liberal supporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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\u2019re feeling from our own supporters, from people who are involved in our party, is that they\u2019re willing to work together. They\u2019re willing to rally behind Pablo. They\u2019re 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,\u201d said Liberal MNA Andr\u00e9 Fortin at the National Assembly Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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