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PQ members endorse Jean-Francois Lisee’s with 92.8 per cent confidence vote

Sep 9, 2017 | 4:30 PM

MONTREAL — Parti Quebecois members have resoundingly endorsed the leadership of Jean-Francois Lisee in a confidence vote.

Lisee received 92.8 per cent support from the sovereigntist party’s membership in a vote at a party convention in Montreal.

The vote is a boost for Lisee, who has said he will forgo any independence referendum in a first Parti Quebecois mandate if he wins next year’s provincial election.

Earlier on Saturday, party delegates proposed a resolution that would gradually cut funding to English junior colleges.