Quebec election: Liberal blames Quebec Conservative leader’s rhetoric for rising threats

Liberal candidate Marwah Rizqy is blaming Conservative Celebration of Quebec Chief Éric Duhaime for the extremely charged political local weather.

Rizqy says she has been receiving deaths threats and that final week a person known as police to inform them he had murdered her.

And on Tuesday, the Montreal driving workplace of Liberal Enrico Ciccone was vandalized and robbed.

She instructed reporters in Sherbrooke, Que., that Duhaime is guilty for the violent political setting as a result of he mentioned final June that his occasion’s goal was to convey voters’ discontent into the legislature.

Later in Montreal, Duhaime mentioned he was upset by Rizqy’s feedback, including that his occasion’s volunteers have additionally been threatened and that politicians of all stripes are dealing with hatred.

Coalition Avenir Québec Chief François Legault says he requested Quebec provincial police to make themselves out there to candidates who really feel threatened or involved about security.

Rizqy says folks aspiring to elected workplace ought to wish to use their concepts to have an effect on change.

“In case your democratic legacy is to channel hatred, anger, it’s a really unhealthy legacy; perhaps you need to rethink the explanations you wish to enter the legislature,” she mentioned.