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The Bloc Quebecois was formed by Members of Parliament who defected from the federal Progressive Conservative Party and Liberal Party after the Failure of the Meech Lake Accord. The Party was officially created on June 15 1991. The Party was originally led by Lucien Bouchard who was a former Federal Conservative Cabinet minister. The first candidate to be elected was Gilles Duceppe but he was not recognized as a member of the Bloc Quebecois but as an independent because the Bloc Quebecois had not been registered by Elections Canada as a political party in Canada. In 2011 had only four seats which didn’t reach the minimum number of seats of 12. This meant that once again that those four who did get elected where seen as independent.
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