Quebec Separatists Elect New Leader
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The Bloc Quebecois, a Quebec separatist party that forms the official opposition in Canada’s Parliament, chose former Communist Gilles Duceppe as its new leader. The 49-year-old won the leadership with 53% of the ballots mailed in by party members. About 50,000 of the Bloc’s 113,000 members voted. In his acceptance speech to the convention in Montreal, Duceppe called for a “dialogue of equals” between Quebec and the rest of Canada.
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