Les Démocrates
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Les Démocrates was a provincial political party in Quebec, Canada, founded by former Ralliement créditiste du Québec leader Camil Samson and former Progressive Conservative Party of Canada federal cabinet minister Pierre Sévigny on November 18, 1978. It was renamed the Parti démocrate créditiste on January 1, 1980, a reference to the social credit theory of monetary economics. Samson joined the Liberal Party of Quebec on September 2, 1980, and the Parti démocrate créditiste was dissolved. [1].
Social crediters who did not follow Samson into the Liberal Party may have joined the Parti credit social uni, which was formed in 1979 as a new provincial wing of the Social Credit Party of Canada. [2]
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- ^ Ralliement créditiste (French). QuébecPolitique.com. Retrieved on 2006-11-13.
- ^ Ralliement créditiste (French). QuébecPolitique.com. Retrieved on 2006-11-13. See also: Canadian Press. "Party leader seeks election in Quebec vote", The Globe and Mail, October 20, 1979, p. P-2.
[edit] See also
- Politics of Quebec
- List of Quebec general elections
- List of Quebec premiers
- List of Quebec leaders of the Opposition
- National Assembly of Quebec
- Timeline of Quebec history
- Political parties in Quebec
