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Québec solidaire’s Manon Massé got a hero’s welcome from a standing-room-only crowd of ecstatic supporters at the Olympia night club Monday night, as she told them their “historic” performance in this election is only a beginning.

“The political landscape in Quebec has changed for good; a new generation is taking its proper place,” said Massé, the party’s candidate for premier and co-spokesperson. “We will not form a government tomorrow, but we just won our first battle for the hope of our people.”

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Massé congratulated premier-elect François Legault on his successful campaign, but she warned him that her 10 newly-elected members will hold him to his promise to reform Quebec’s electoral system. And she told PQ leader Jean-François Lisée that she and her party intend to take over the sovereignty project and make it “once again synonymous with openness and solidarity.”

It was a night of remarkable gains for a young party that held only three seats in Quebec’s last legislature.