PKP, l'impact de sa candidature dans le New York Times

Tous les observateurs québécois et canadiens de la scène politiques ont identifié la candidature de Pierre Karl Péladeau comme un moment très important de l'actuelle campagne au Québec. Le New York Times y va à son tout d'un petit topo sur l'impact du candidat péquiste. Le collègue Michel Pépin de Radio-Canada y est cité.

 "During the 18 months it has held power, the Parti Québécois routinely dismissed suggestions that it wanted to move swiftly to hold a third referendum on whether the mostly French-speaking province of Quebec should leave Canada. The party has tried to play down the option of separation, mindful that a majority of Quebec’s voters oppose independence, according to numerous polls going back several years.

But with one fiery declaration, Mr. Péladeau appears to have all but demolished his party’s hopes for victory in Monday’s snap election.

 “Today, we have the tools to take control of our own destiny,” he told a crowd last month in his first speech in the Montreal suburb he is campaigning to represent. “My devotion to the Parti Québécois is a devotion based on my most intimate values — that is to say: making Quebec a country.” His raised fist provided an exclamation mark.

The impact was immediate. In a blog post, Michel Pepin, a political analyst with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s French service, compared Mr. Péladeau’s entry into politics to “a fragmentation bomb” that would leave none of the four provincial political parties untouched, in ways both good and bad.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/07/world/americas/a-star-candidates-support-for-secession-undercuts-quebecs-governing-party.html?ref=world&_r=0