Canada<\/a> during his first term, although he said he would wait until US President Donald Trump leaves office in January 2029.<\/p>\nIt was not yet clear whether the party had reached the 64 seats needed for a majority in the 127-seat National Assembly.<\/p>\n
If it falls short, it would lead a minority government and need support from opposition lawmakers to pass major legislation and survive confidence votes.<\/p>\n
The Parti Quebecois, or PQ, last governed the province from 2012 to 2014.<\/p>\n
Monday\u2019s victory marks a sharp recovery for the PQ, which won just three seats in the 2022 provincial election.<\/p>\n
Its return also ends eight years in power for the Coalition Avenir Quebec, or CAQ, a centre-right Quebec nationalist party that does not support independence.<\/p>\n
Daniel Beland, a political science professor at McGill University in Montreal, told The Associated Press news agency that the victory reflects Quebec\u2019s multiparty system, where support is divided among several parties, rather than a surge in secessionist sentiment.<\/p>\n
Support for independence remains at about 30 percent, low by historical standards, he said.<\/p>\n
Still, Beland said a secessionist government in Quebec represents a new national-unity challenge for Carney, particularly with another independence-related vote approaching in Alberta.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeeing that a pro-independence party won in Quebec barely two weeks before an independence-related referendum takes place in Alberta might suggest to the Trump administration that national unity remains a major issue in Canada despite the popularity of Mark Carney,\u201d Beland said.<\/p>\n
Quebec held two previous referendums on independence, in 1980 and 1995, and voters rejected secession both times.<\/p>\n
The second vote was decided by a narrow margin, but there has been no further referendum in the three decades since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parti Quebecois returns to power, promising a third referendum on Quebec\u2019s independence from Canada. Published On 6 Oct…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,201701,2065,6485,75,44,128,6075],"class_list":["post-917787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-border-disputes","tag-canada","tag-elections","tag-environment","tag-news","tag-science","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}