PQ - le couronnement de P. Marois, vu par la presse canadian

The PQ, R.I.P.


Maybe we're all being a little too hard on Gilles Duceppe. Who amongst us hasn't made a major life decision and then immediately suffered terror and regret? On Friday, when Mr. Duceppe announced his candidacy for the Parti Quebecois leadership, he was obviously following a plan made long in advance. He had good reasons to feel as though he had let the sovereigntist movement down by not providing an alternat...

Marois flexes her muscles

As a condition of becoming leader, she lays down the law to her party's hard-liners

The Parti Quebecois is used to imposing conditions on its leader. Now Pauline Marois, as a condition of becoming leader, will impose conditions on the party. First, no referendum. Second, no more go-go gauche. Take it or leave it. And as she said, political parties that fall out of touch with voters tend to be marginalized, "and even disappear." At the same time, at her second debut on Sunday, she affirmed...

Everywhere you look: losers


He's toast, of course. You don't do yourself the kind of harm Gilles Duceppe did over the weekend and expect to carry on as before. Trailing blood, Mr. Duceppe has been allowed to hang on as leader of the Bloc Quebecois for the time being, by the grace and favour of his caucus. But with his party floundering-- some recent polls show it scraping 30% support among Quebecers, a historic low -- the broader party membe...

Enjoy it while you can, Pauline

The Parti Quebecois is welcoming Marois as it does all its saviours - but the good feelings don't last

With some people it's shoes. Gilles Duceppe just can't resist hats. Ten years after he was thought to have sworn off headgear for good following an incident involving a shower bonnet, yesterday the ex-ex-leader of the Bloc Quebecois slunk back to Ottawa after his lost weekend in provincial politics wearing a dunce cap. Duceppe has learned too late why, in political poker, you should never go all-in with...

Sovereignist camp in open disarray


Sovereignists are off to a shaky start as they scramble to recover from their disastrous March 26 defeat in Quebec's provincial election. Premier Jean Charest's Liberals and Mario Dumont's Action Democratique trounced the Parti Quebecois under Andre Boisclair. The PQ ran third, its most dismal showing yet. Yet the chaotic race to replace Boisclair, who was forced out last week, has plunged the sovereignty mo...

The PQ has a funny way of 'renewing' its leadership


'Gilles Duceppe will probably assume the Parti Québécois leadership after appropriate but swift formalities. Nobody else wants the job." Who wrote those words just last week? Talk about being breathtakingly wrong. How embarrassing. Apologies, sincere apologies. Gilles Duceppe just ran the shortest leadership campaign in Canadian political history. It lasted 29 hours. He jumped into a pool without any water. ...

Marois is vindicated, but at what price?


Less than a year and a half ago, Pauline Marois found herself battling for the Parti Quebecois leadership as just one more hopeful in a crowded field of nine. A tough, experienced former cabinet minister, Marois should have been able to power her way past the rest of the field. Instead, she came in a humiliating 20 points behind the PQ's top choice, Andre Boisclair, a younger, less experienced candidate who a f...

Quebec is the same


Editorial - The Barrie Examiner - What is all the national fuss about the Parti Quebecois leadership race? One separatist is the same as another to the rest of Canada, whether it's Andre Boisclair or Gilles Duceppe or Pauline Marois. Boisclair, of course, is no longer an issue - given that he resigned last week following the PQ's dismal performance in the last Quebec provincial election. The...

It's marois's moment'

Kicks off bid to lead PQ. Party stalwart looks invincible after Duceppe's withdrawal

It's time to stop talking about the mechanics of another referendum and to start selling the merits of sovereignty if the Parti Quebecois is going to avoid political extinction, Pauline Marois said yesterday in announcing her third try for the leadership of the battered party. In a show of strength that makes it almost certain the former cabinet minister will not face any opponent, a determined and confident-so...

The 29-hour candidate's gall

Duceppe's PQ pullout renders him roadkill

OTTAWA - On the bright side, it will finally replace that cheese factory hairnet photo taken during the 1997 campaign as his greatest gaffe. But Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe's spectacular flip-flop over the weekend -- turning from accused backstabber to trembling backtracker in a Parti Quebecois leadership race he helped orchestrate -- will render him fresh roadkill in the blood sport of politics. He...

The Deuce' gets caught in cheesy bluff

Gilles Duceppe has only himself to blame for the wreckage of his PQ campaign

In the annals of Quebec and Canadian politics, there has never been a crash like the candidacy of Gilles Duceppe for the leadership of the Parti Quebecois. In less than a week, he went from heir presumptive to a spent force in the sovereignty movement. Or as La Presse columnist Vincent Marissal put it yesterday, the Bloc Quebecois leader went from "from a great saviour to the biggest wet firecracker in the rece...

Duceppe thinks twice


Well, a rare outbreak of lucidity in federal politics: Gilles Duceppe, having concluded he could not beat Pauline Marois for leadership of the Parti Quebecois -- not, at least, without further damage to faltering sovereignty forces -- withdrew his candidacy. He stands to be ridiculed, accused of cowardice, or, at least, a fatal lack of preparation. It appears he had one plan: waltz into the vacuum opened up b...

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