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Liberals win big: Quebecers opt for change
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| Contributor | User 13 |
| Last Edited | User 13 Apr 15, 2003 11:14am |
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| News Date | Tuesday, April 15, 2003 05:14:25 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Get used to the sound of it: Quebec Premier Jean Charest.
Quebecers opted for a decisive turn into the future yesterday by voting in a federalist Liberal government in Quebec's first general election of the new millennium.
They rejected Bernard Landry as premier and denied the separatist Parti Québécois a third term in office along with the chance to mount a fresh drive for Quebec independence with the levers of government at its command.
The 44-year-old Charest, born to a bilingual household and previously leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party, will be the province's 29th premier and the first to come of age in Quebec's modern era.
About 40 minutes after the polls closed, Radio-Canada's election desk projected a majority Liberal government, and the trend from there kept running in favour of the Liberals.
With the vote count completed in the province's 125 ridings, the Liberals had 76 candidates elected or leading, the PQ 45 and Action démocratique du Québec had four.
Quebec premier-designate Jean Charest
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