A relief for the Vimont Liberals

About a half-hour later, the atmosphere was rather gloomy: the giant screen, the silence of campaign workers broken only by boos at results of ADQ candidates in the lead in various ridings.

A little further away, a woman doesn't dare comment. "I'm too scared!" But a campaign organizer is a lot freer with his frustration. "It was foreseen, but what worries me is that the ADQ is not ready. The message from the voters is ill conceived, because it could cost dearly, this minority government. We could say that the people wanted to vote ADQ and couldn't care less about the rest," sums up Abdel Kabir.

"The best gift anyone could give me is when I'm told that they voted for the man." That observation was made to him on numerous occasions when he did door-to-door during the campaign. Now, he was very proud of it.

"A minority government? It's not a shock for me. We felt the ADQ rising. It's a vote that says the people want us to listen. I'm looking at my colleagues: Maurice Clermont, who's been re-elected, he's a man of the people."