Former Prime Minister Lucien Bouchard assures that he “does not expect the disappearance” of his former training and said he was saddened that René Lévesque’s sister was angry with him on the eve of the 100e anniversary of the founder of the Parti Québécois.
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In a letter he sent to Alice Lévesque, Mr. Bouchard affirms that he would have liked this celebration to take place in the most beautiful of fraternities.
“Believe me, it saddens me to know you are angry and if I can appease it in the slightest with these few words, I, in turn, undertake to write them to you,” he mentions.
Yesterday, the sister of René Lévesque announced, angrily in our pages, that the honorary president of the “Lévesque Year” condemned “the Parti Québécois to the death”, she says, instead of honoring her brother.
Lucien Bouchard admits to having had harsh words recently in an interview. He now makes it clear that no one can dispute the fundamental role this party has played in our recent history.
“It is also the memory of the great democrat that your brother was that inspires me when I say, regarding the vehicle that is the Parti Québécois that “if” – and I insist “if” – people do not want more, we’ll have to choose another.”
Then, he mentions that he also had good words.
“I reiterated that independence is a ‘political necessity’, that ‘the dream is still there’. I said clearly that I do not expect the disappearance of the PQ”, he wrote, adding that it is not for him, “nor for anyone”, to decree the death of a party or its survival. “But to voters,” he says. “We will have a small part of the answer in October, but once more, it cannot be definitive.”
