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Quebec separatist premier loses support

MONTREAL, April 3 (UPI) - The latest opinion poll (released Friday)
indicates that Quebecers would vote strongly for federalist leader Jean
Charest even if Premier Lucien Bouchard shelves plans for another
referendum on independence. Charest would garner 49.7 percent of the
vote, against 30.7 percent for Bouchard.

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MONTREAL, April 3 (UPI) - The latest opinion poll in Montreal
indicates Quebecers would vote strongly for federalist leader Jean
Charest, even if the Premier Lucien Bouchard shelves plans for another
referendum on Quebec sovereignty.

The survey published in The Montreal Gazette and Le Soleil newspapers
today shows 49.7 percent of Quebecers would vote for the Quebec Liberal
party with Charest as leader.

Only 30.7 percent of respondents said they would vote for the ruling
Parti Quebecois, if an election were held today, while 6.1 percent would
vote for other parties and 13.6 percent were undecided.

Charest quit the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives last
month and is preparing to run for the leadership of the Quebec Liberals.

The 39-year-old federalist leader from Sherbrooke, Quebec, is taking
on Bouchard in the next election in a bid to prevent another referendum
on secession.

Bouchard has vowed to hold another referendum if he wins the next
election, but last week said he would proceed only if he is certain the
secessionists would win.

In the latest poll, almost 63 percent said Bouchard, if re-elected,
should scrap plans for a new referendum on sovereignty. The
secessionists lost the October 1995 referendum by a one-percent margin.

The poll shows that even if he dropped referendum plans before an
election, the Liberals would still win 48.5 percent of the vote,
compared with 31.3 for the PQ.
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