Word: pq
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First of all, Chung describes the victory of the separatist party. Parti Quebecois (PQ), in the Sep. 12 provincial election as overwhelming. The number of seats claimed by the PQ do form a good majority of the seats in the National Assembly (77 of 125) but the popular vote certainly doesn't tell the same story. Chung himself points out that the PQ obtained only 44.7 percent of the votes while the Liberals won the approval of 44.3 percent of the voters. Only 50,000 votes separated the two parties...
Although 45 percent of Quebecers voted for the PQ (enough to give it a majority government, only 30 percent want a soverign Quebec, and 55 percent do not think that the PQ should take any sovereignty in government...
...people of Quebec ballots for a new provincial government, not for a dismembered in eight to 10 months, which Quebecers will be following question: Do you wish the government of Quebec to begin the process of separation from But this referendum will come only after lengths from the PQ and only after the PQ has already begins the process of separation...
...PQ is arrogant and in its assumption that the disintegration of Canada is as simple as a provincial election in which it garners only 45 percent of the popular vote (for comparison, the Liberals had 44 percent.) There is no precedent and so mechanism for a transition which the PQ strains hard to present as routine...
These questions seem almost immaterial to Parizeau and to the PQ. Their hope is that Quebecers won't catch on to their plan, will be by their propaganda, and will be catapulted into economic, end political disarray so that Parizeau can get his face painted on a 20-franc bill...