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Newsjock

(11,733 posts) Tue Sep 4, 2012, 09:21 PM Sep 2012

Quebec elects Pauline Marois PQ government [View all]

Source: CBC News

After battling back from inner party turmoil and record lows in party support, Pauline Marois and the Parti Québécois have claimed victory over the incumbent Liberals and will form the province’s next government, CBC News projects.

A personal victory for Marois, who struggled with support in her own party during in the year before the election, the party will now have to figure out how to move forward with its lengthy platform that focused on sovereignty, identity issues and heightening the province’s language laws.

Marois, 63, will now become the province's first female premier.

The PQ win marks a significant loss for the Liberals, who, after nine years in power, gambled on a summer election a year before the end of their mandate.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/quebecvotes2012/story/2012/09/03/quebec-election-night-results-2012.html

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Quebec elects Pauline Marois PQ government [View all] Newsjock Sep 2012 OP

That blows beyond belief sharp_stick Sep 2012 #1

It's looking like a minority government, so yeah Posteritatis Sep 2012 #2

Gerrymandering is an art form up there sharp_stick Sep 2012 #4

That's more an artifact of FPTP than gerrymandering Posteritatis Sep 2012 #5

Are you from Nova Scotia? Ken Burch Sep 2012 #26

They weren't tied, but it was really close - 23 seats to 20 (and the Liberals' 9) Posteritatis Sep 2012 #27

Thanks for the response. On an entirely different note... Ken Burch Sep 2012 #28

There's plenty of events centred around that, more often in the summer of course Posteritatis Sep 2012 #29

The PQ aren't racists. Ken Burch Sep 2012 #6

"Par l'argent puis des votes ethniques." Sure, no racism in that party... (nt) Posteritatis Sep 2012 #9

That was Jacques Parizeau, and he's been out of power for years. Ken Burch Sep 2012 #12

They aren't racist. They are chauvinists. Huge difference that escapes you. Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2012 #13

They are not "racist assholes" and nothing like Teabillies. Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2012 #10

Sure... sharp_stick Sep 2012 #24

Crap. chollybocker Sep 2012 #3

That is utter bullshit. Ken Burch Sep 2012 #7

Utter nonsense. Ken Burch states it well. nt. Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2012 #11

Some pictures of THIS year's candidates for the "racist" PQ Ken Burch Sep 2012 #17

Sooooo posting pictures of different looking folks within it means they aren't a party of bigots? ProudToBeBlueInRhody Sep 2012 #18

The number of PQ candidates of color(most of whom were elected)is a much larger percentage Ken Burch Sep 2012 #19

I know bigots when I see them ProudToBeBlueInRhody Sep 2012 #21

Oh stop it, both of you. chollybocker Sep 2012 #20

You didn't touch a nerve, you spread a discredited smear. Ken Burch Sep 2012 #23

The best news of the night is that a new party, the left-wing Quebec Solidaire Ken Burch Sep 2012 #8

I see some positives in this too. Joe Shlabotnik Sep 2012 #15

I would have voted for that party. David__77 Sep 2012 #22

WOW. KatyaR Sep 2012 #14

Wow! Kber Sep 2012 #16

Bump. n/t Tx4obama Sep 2012 #25

I Quebec doesn't get over it's obsession with language and Quebec culture, whatever that is, they're Monk06 Sep 2012 #30

Posts like that won't help them get over it. Ken Burch Sep 2012 #31

I agree with almost everything you say and I consider Quebec a culture and even a sovereignty Monk06 Sep 2012 #32