Léger: Rodriguez Could Jolt Quebec Liberals Back to Life

With one month to go in the Quebec Liberal leadership race, a new Léger poll shows Pablo Rodriguez could revive the moribund PLQ.

The latest Quebec Léger poll, published Wednesday in Quebecor media, reveals widespread dissatisfaction with François Legault’s government—and that discontent shows no signs of fading. Since December 2023, every Léger survey has reported a dissatisfaction rate above 55%.

In this latest release, 61% of Quebec respondents say they are unhappy with the government's performance, soon entering its eighth year in power.

As a result, many Quebec voters are looking for an alternative. For the past year and a half, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon’s Parti Québécois has been the main beneficiary of this desire for change in Quebec City. The Quebec Liberals, meanwhile, are still struggling to recover from back-to-back defeats in 2018 and 2022. Léger gives the PLQ just 21% support provincewide, including only 10% among the francophone majority—numbers that would leave the party uncompetitive in a general election.

However, Léger’s latest figures suggest the tide could shift if Pablo Rodriguez wins the PLQ leadership race, set to conclude on June 14.