Elections As Party Leader
He won the 1998 election and resigned in 2001. Bouchard remains, as of 2012, the only PQ leader to be Premier of Quebec for his entire leadership and the only non-interim PQ leader to never lose an election.
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Famous quotes containing the words elections, party and/or leader:
“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“At the moment when a man openly makes known his difference of opinion from a well-known party leader, the whole world thinks that he must be angry with the latter. Sometimes, however, he is just on the point of ceasing to be angry with him. He ventures to put himself on the same plane as his opponent, and is free from the tortures of suppressed envy.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning—not blind acceptance and “our Leader knows best” acclaim.”
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