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The Parti Québécois (French for 'Quebec Party', pronounced [paʁti kebekwa]; PQ) is a sovereignist [8] and social democratic [2] [9] [10] [11] provincial political party in Quebec, Canada. The PQ advocates national sovereignty for Quebec involving independence of the province of Quebec from Canada and establishing a sovereign state.
This is a list of the premiers of the province of Quebec since Canadian Confederation in 1867. Quebec uses a unicameral (originally bicameral) Westminster-style parliamentary government, in which the premier is the leader of the party that controls the most seats in the National Assembly (previously called the Legislative Assembly).
While he now believed Quebec belongs within Canada, he vowed that a CAQ government would "explore all options" to defend Quebec's interests and demand greater power. [17] The party finished third in the 2012 general election, winning 19 seats and 27.05 percent of the vote. [18]
The Conservative Party of Quebec (CPQ; French: Parti conservateur du Québec, pronounced [paʁti kɔ̃sɛʁvatœʁ dy kebɛk], PCQ) is a provincial political party in Quebec, Canada. It was authorized on 25 March 2009 by the Chief Electoral Officer of Quebec . [ 2 ]
On six occasions since the twentieth century, a premier has retired and the governing party has selected a new party leader, who automatically became premier. Lomer Gouin (1905), Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (1920), Adélard Godbout (1936), Pierre Marc Johnson (1985), [ 4 ] Daniel Johnson Jr. (1994) and Bernard Landry (2001) all succeeded to the ...
An exception to this rule occurs when the winning party's leader fails to win a riding. In that case, the premier would have to attain a seat by winning a by-election. This has happened, for example, to Robert Bourassa in 1985. The role of the premier of Quebec is to set the legislative priorities on the opening speech of the National Assembly.
Former party leader Daniel Paillé was also a PQ member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1994 to 1996, and a BQ member of Parliament from 2009 to 2011. In June 2014, Mario Beaulieu , a former PQ riding president and Bloc candidate, was elected leader of the Bloc Québécois.
Blanchet was elected unopposed as leader of the Bloc Québécois in 2019, following Martine Ouellet's resignation the previous year. He was elected to parliament later that year, with the BQ increasing its number of seats from 10 in 2015 to 32 in 2019 and overtaking the New Democratic Party (NDP) to become the House of Commons' third-largest party.