1 in 4 Quebec NDP candidates have little presence just days before election [Video]

Jérémie Juneau’s candidate page on the NDP website is just an orange square, with no photo, no biography and no link.

And voters in the northwestern Quebec riding of Abitibi-Témiscamingue where he is running might not have much luck learning about him, as he campaigns on a part-time basis without election signs, a campaign director or volunteers.

“I’m literally alone,” the 29-year-old Amos, Que., resident said in an interview Wednesday. “There’s a song about it,” he added a moment later, humming a few notes of Eric Carmen’s All By Myself over a spotty Wi-Fi connection.

Juneau isn’t the only one. Days before the April 28 vote, there was no photo or biographical information on the NDP website for more than 20 of its 78 candidates running in Quebec, in what two political scientists describe as another sign of distress for a party fighting to keep a presence in the province.

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