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CAQ Leadership Race Ends Sunday as Fréchette, Drainville Vie for Premiership
About 20,500 CAQ members are eligible to vote as Christine Fréchette and Bernard Drainville compete to replace François Legault.
- Quebec's Coalition Avenir Québec will announce their new party leader on Sunday, replacing the only leader they have ever had.
- Christine Fréchette, a former economy minister, and Bernard Drainville, an ex-environment minister, are the candidates vying for the CAQ premiership.
- About 20,500 CAQ members were eligible to vote in the leadership race to choose the new leader.
- Drainville focused on conservative ideas and stricter immigration, while Fréchette focused on economic issues and openness to more permanent residents.
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Chris Selley: Quebec's doomed new premier can at least save her party from chauvinism
Christine Fréchette, who will be sworn in as premier of Quebec on Wednesday, is unlikely to hold that position in a year’s time. The Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) party, of which she won the leadership Sunday, is staggering around town at roughly 10 per cent in the polls. It would take a heck of a new-leader boost to save it, even without Canada’s least popular outgoing premier, François Legault, weighing the party down.
The CAQ will announce today that Christine Fréchette or Bernard Drainville will succeed François Legault as party leader and PM-designate of Quebec.
Who of Christine Fréchette or Bernard Drainville will become the next leader of the Coalition futur Québec (CAQ) and Premier of Quebec?
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