# How did Quebec separatists win if most Quebecers oppose separation?

https://mins.news/en/video/88893

- CBC News, 2026-10-07 00:34 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZeXt9eQ_L0

> Quebec has elected a separatist party in a provincial election for the first time in more than a decade, despite most residents opposing secession from Canada. Andrew Chang examines how the incumbent Coalition Avenir Québec’s collapse helped the Parti Québécois and leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon rise, and why voters treated sovereignty as a separate issue.

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