New Democratic Party of Quebec
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New Democratic Party of Quebec
Nouveau parti démocratique du Quebec |
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| Leader | Pierre Ducasse |
| Founded | 2014 |
| Preceded by | NPDQ 1963-1994, Parti social démocratique du Québec (Quebec chapter of the CCF) |
| Ideology |
Social democratic Federalism Progressivism Quebec nationalist Democratic socialism Environmentalist Trade unionist |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| National affiliation | New Democratic Party of Canada |
| International affiliation | Socialist International and Progressive Alliance |
| Colours | Orange |
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The New Democratic Party of Quebec (in French: Nouveau Parti démocratique du Québec) (NPD-Québec or NPDQ) is a federalist and social-democratic political party in Quebec, Canada. The current party is a reboot of an older party that no longer exists.
The original party emerged from the Quebec Chapter of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, and aside from temporarily holding a single seat in the National Assembly (David Côté) it only played a minor role in Quebec provincial politics. During the late 1980s it came under the leadership of radical sovereigntists, prompting a rupture from the federal NDP. It voted to disaffiliate from the federal party in 1989 and changed its name to the Parti de la democratie socialiste or "Party of Democratic Socialism" in 1994.
The PDS would later become a founding member of Quebec Solidaire, a left of centre sovereingntist party. For the following two decades the NDP remained moribund in Quebec; however, gains by the federal party, at first modest with the 2007 election of Tom Mulcair in Outremont and then dramatic with the "Orange Surge" of the 2011 Canadian federal election led to renewed calls for a provincial NDP in Quebec as an alternative to the right-leaning, federalist Quebec Liberal Party and the typically left-leaning but sovereigntist Parti Quebecois. The federal NDP restarted the Quebec party before the 2014 general election; the modern party was registered on January 30, 2014, as 'Nouveau Parti démocratique du Québec.'
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