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Parti Québécois

British  
/ parti /

noun

  1.  PQ.  (in Canada) a political party in Quebec, formed in 1968 and originally advocating the separation of Quebec from the rest of the country

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Mr. Legault started his political career in the separatist, social democratic Parti Québécois, which, for decades, led the province’s independence movement.

From New York Times Oct. 3, 2022

A onetime businessman who co-founded a successful budget airline, Mr. Legault started his political career in the separatist, social democratic Parti Québécois, a group ideologically opposed to the federalist, pro-business Liberal Party.

From New York Times Oct. 2, 2022

Louise Beaudoin, a former lawmaker with the sovereigntist Parti Québécois, said the minister responsible for the bill needed to have more “courage.”

From Washington Post Nov. 12, 2021

In 1968, he had founded Le Parti Québécois.

From The New Yorker Feb. 28, 2015

After failing to convince Quebec's reformist Liberals that they should adopt a separatist policy, Lévesque quit the party in 1967 to found the Mouvement Souveraineté Association, the forerunner of his Parti Québécois.

From Time Magazine Archive

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