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TROIS-RIVIÈRES — The Parti Québécois has adopted a new base document of principles once again putting independence front and centre of its political actions.

Fifty-one years after the foundation of the PQ and having tried a battery of different formulas to woo Quebecers, the party Sunday opted to go back to basics.

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For some, the fact the PQ believes Quebec should become an independent country may not be news, but the party believes the advantages it sees in sovereignty are not well known to the younger generation.

And politically it needs to carve out a new niche in the political spectrum currently being hogged by the Coalition Avenir Québec, which has cornered the market on the nationalist vote. The spin in the document adopted here Sunday is that independence is the “logical and desirable outcome of nationalism.”

Further reinforcing this more modern image, delegates at a special congrès de refondation confirmed the election by acclamation of a new party president, Dieudonné Ella Oyono, who is of Gabonese origin.