[EN IMAGES] Returning to the door of the Blue Chamber, the PQ will not sit down before revoking the oath to the King.

After being turned away at the door of the Blue Room, the three PQ representatives promise not to sit down before passing a bill to repeal the oath to King. They expect a decision before Christmas.

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PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamonton said hours after the stunt with MPs Pascal Perroupe and Joel Arseneau, “we are making sure that the result is indeed achieved”. They want to keep up the pressure after other political parties have promised to pass the bill.

The three separatist Musketeers appeared in Question Time on Thursday morning, hoping that new President Nathalie Roy would give them the right to sit, despite her predecessor’s recent decision.

In a polite and calm tone, the PQ leader asked if he could speak to the sergeant-at-arms after being stopped by a special constable.

“I had a clear order that you shouldn’t enter because you don’t swear,” said Véronique Michel, who is in charge of enforcing the order at the Blue Salon.

Paul St-Pierre Plamonton immediately complied with this order, asking the sergeant-at-arms to provide him with a document of his formal election and a medal awarded by the National Assembly after taking the oath of allegiance to the President. People of Quebec.

An inflexible president

At the same time, on the other side of closed doors, the President delivered his decision.

M^me Roy finally sided with the decision of his predecessor, François Paradis, who ruled that an oath to the king was necessary to sit. “I fully subscribe to this decision and intend to use it,” he said.

The obligation to swear an oath to the king was “not an opinion”, he later argued: “it is the rule of law”. Later, M.^me Roy added that a motion does not make it possible to denigrate the law. “The representatives of the Parti Québécois must govern themselves according to the current law,” he concluded.

Revenue, PSPP says

Despite this disappointment, the PQ leader believes his crusade is starting to pay off. “We’re working on things,” he said. In the space of just one week, we brought all parties together and made a difference. Yesterday, the Quebec Liberal Party said it wants to change that.

Indeed, the debate over the oath of allegiance to the king, previously set aside, occupies a prominent place in this parliamentary liturgy. Even the most federalist Liberal MP Andre Ford announced on Thursday that he would no longer pledge allegiance to the king when it was no longer compulsory.

Bill soon?

Meanwhile, work continued in the blue room in the absence of three opposition PQ MPs.

Québec solidaire, backed by the CAQ government and the Liberal opposition, adopted a motion to “make the oath of allegiance to the king optional following the rapid adoption of a bill”.

The supporter has also reintroduced a bill to this effect.

For his part, Prime Minister François Legault reiterated his intention to introduce a bill next week to make the oath of allegiance to the British crown optional.

As the session ends next Friday, it remains to be seen whether parliamentarians will be willing to adopt it at full speed.

– with QMI Agency