
Quebec's political landscape disrupted by an unprecedented sovereignist push
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The 2022 elections brought only three sovereignist deputies to power. The outgoing party, the Coalition Avenir Québec, held the majority before this election.
It’s a spectacular comeback. While only three sovereignist deputies were brought to power during the last provincial elections of 2022, Quebecers have just elected 59. However, this is insufficient to reach the majority of 64 elected to the National Assembly.
“This is the first time that a Quebec government has been elected with so few votes,” underlines to Le Figaro Éric Montigny, professor of political science at Laval University in Quebec. The Liberals obtained 40 deputies, the conservatives and the left (represented by Québec solidaire) respectively 19 and 9 parliamentarians. The ruling party, the Coalition Avenir Québec, is wiped off the map, failing to elect a single one of its candidates, even though it had previously ruled the province. All the pollsters' predictions at the start of the Quebec legislative campaign turned out to be false.
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