Today's snap elections in Québéc may turn on unguarded pro-separatism comments
The Parti Québécois (PQ) may lose today's snap elections in Québéc because one of its star candidates in the legislative elections, Pierre Karl Péladeau -- who is routinely described as a combination of Rupert Murdoch and Silvio Berlusconi -- declared that he would support the separation of the province from Canada. The PQ was created to champion the cause of Québéc separatism, but voters in the ...province twice -- in 1980 and 1995 -- rejected separation from Canada, and over the past two decades the PQ has muted its calls for French separatism. The PQ has been in power in the province for the past eighteen months, and it called the elections in order to increase its majority in the provincial legislature. The impact of Péladeau's pro-separatism statements was immediate: the once-comfortable lead held by the PQ in the early part of the campaign has all but evaporated, and all major polls now suggest that it is unlikely to return as the province’s governing party.
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