Parti Québécois

Parti Québécois
AbbreviationPQ
LeaderPaul St-Pierre Plamondon
PresidentCatherine Gentilcore
FoundersRené Lévesque
Gilles Grégoire
Founded11 October 1968 (1968-10-11)
Merger ofMouvement Souveraineté-Association,
Ralliement national,
Rassemblement pour l'Indépendance Nationale
Headquarters1200, avenue Papineau
Suite 150
Montreal, Quebec
H2K 4R5
Membership (March 9, 2022) 42,665[1]
Ideology
Political positionCentre-left[7]
International affiliationCOPPPAL (observer)
ColoursBlue
Seats in the National Assembly
6 / 125
Website
pq.org
  • Politics of Quebec
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  • Elections

The Parti Québécois ([paʁti kebekwa], PQ; lit.'Quebec Party') 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. The PQ has also promoted the possibility of maintaining a loose political and economic sovereignty-association between Quebec and Canada. The party traditionally has support from the labour movement; however, unlike most other social democratic parties, its ties with organized labour are informal.[12] Members and supporters of the PQ are nicknamed péquistes (/pˈkst/ pay-KEEST,[13] Quebec French pronunciation: [peˈkɪst] ), a French word derived from the pronunciation of the party's initials.

The party is an associate member of COPPPAL.[14] The party has strong informal ties to the Bloc Québécois (BQ, whose members are known as "Bloquistes"), the federal party that has also advocated for the secession of Quebec from Canada, but the two are not linked organizationally. As with its federal counterpart, the Parti Québécois has been supported by a wide range of voters in Quebec, from large sections of organized labour to more conservative rural voters.[15][16]

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  4. ^ Britannica Book of the Year (2013 ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2013. p. 402. ISBN 978-1-62513-103-4. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
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  9. ^ Rodney S. Haddow, Thomas Richard Klassen (2006). Partisanship, globalization, and Canadian labour market policy. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-8020-9090-4.
  10. ^ Geoffrey Hale; Geoffrey E. Hale (2006). Uneasy Partnership: The Politics of Business and Government in Canada. University of Toronto Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-55111-504-7. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
  11. ^ Cecil Young (2004). One Canada. Trafford Publishing. p. 37. ISBN 978-1-4120-2235-4. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
  12. ^ Schmidt, Ingo; Evans, Bryan (19 July 2012). Social Democracy After the Cold War — Bryan Evans, Ingo Schmidt — Google Boeken. Athabasca University Press. ISBN 978-1-926836-87-4. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  13. ^ "Péquiste: definition of Péquiste in Oxford dictionary (British & World English)". Oxforddictionaries.com. 2 April 2014. Archived from the original on 7 March 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  14. ^ "Países y partidos miembros". Archived from the original on 23 October 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  15. ^ "Boisclair gets emotional talking about homophobia". CTV News. 4 March 2007. Archived from the original on 29 March 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
  16. ^ "Results suggest rift between urban, rural voters". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 24 January 2006. Archived from the original on 3 February 2006. Retrieved 14 May 2013.