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In the 2012 provincial election, the party nominated ten candidates, who won a total of 1,244 votes, or 0.03% of the provincial total.
In the 2014 provincial election, the party nominated one candidate, party leader Michel Lepage, who won 126 votes in Borduas riding.[6]
In 2017, The party ran in the Gouin provincial by-election with Alexandre Cormier-Denis as its candidate. During that by election The party had a poster campaign poster where it had two women, one with a toque and another one with a niqab and asks people to “choose their Quebec.” Some people called the poster racist.[7][8][9] Alexandre Cormier-Denis was 7th placed out of 13 in the by election.
Beliefs
According to former leader Éric Tremblay, the Parti Québécois has given up the will to actively seek the sovereignty of Quebec. Tremblay considers that, if given a majority of seats at the National Assembly of Quebec, the Parti indépendantiste would have clear mandate to achieve sovereignty, even if it receives less than 50% of the popular vote. Tremblay did not hide his intention to put an end to all public financing of English-language schools and hospitals come his election, even though he would offer unilingual English-speakers health care in their language. The party suggests a reduction of more than half of the number of immigrants admitted, which would be reduced to 20,000, and the selection of immigrants based on the knowledge of French.[10]
Leadership and support
Éric Tremblay was the leader from 2008 to 2011, and the leader since 2011 has been Michel Lepage. According to the Chief Electoral Officer of Quebec, donations were $33792 in 2008 and then fell sharply in 2009 and 2010. Prominent supporters have included:
Former Bloc Québécois Member of ParliamentGhislain Lebel announced on April 30, 2008 that he would be a Parti indépendantiste candidate.
Comedian Ghislain Taschereau left the party and became a member of the defunct Option nationale (ON) party.
Alexandre Cormier-Denis, candidate for the party in the 2017 Gouin provincial by-election and the founding President of Horizon Québec Actuel.
Links to neo-Nazis
The Parti indépendantiste has been criticised for having links with neo-Nazis.[13] For example, a neo-Nazi skinhead was the president of the executive committee for the region of Quebec[14] and a member of the neo-Nazi group Blood & Honour is the treasurer.[15] The Parti Indépendantiste was present at a racist protest organized at Montreal in November 2011 with other well-known neo-Nazi groups.[16] The party has been compared to the French National Front because it recruited a fascist.[17] An article published in the newspaper Le Soleil accused the Parti Indépendantiste of being "authentic reactionary racist",[18] and another article by the same newspaper reported that a neo-Nazi was in the hierarchy of the party.[19]