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Étienne A. Beauregard: The CAQ won the battle of ideas — but lost its voters 

François Legault’s coalition failed to deliver on some meaningful centre-right nationalist promises. Now rival parties stand to benefit.

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In 2018, François Legault achieved the impossible by becoming Premier of Quebec with a new party, the Coalition Avenir Québec. This coalition of former PQ, Liberal, and ADQ members promised to reform Quebec’s tired social democracy and to defend its cultural identity, transcending the old divisions between federalists and sovereignists. Nearly eight years later, Legault is no longer premier, and his party ranks third in the polls, but center-right nationalism is more popular than ever in Quebec.

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What happened? Expectations for this new government, which promised to break the mold to do more and do better, were high. For this reason, the disappointment was all the more brutal during its second term.

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