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SAGUENAY — The chairperson of the Parti Québécois caucus moved to paper over a split in the ranks over the creation of a new provincial gun control registry.

“I don’t accept that you say there’s division inside (the caucus),” Pointe-aux-Trembles MNA Nicole Léger said at a news conference Thursday. “We took a position on the registry. We have a clear position. It’s still clear.

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“Can we adjust, modify, improve … these are constructive exchanges. They are not divisions.”

But with party leader Pierre Karl Péladeau called away on family business, Léger sounded vague on whether the party will allow the 29 PQ MNAs to vote freely on the new registry the Liberal government proposes to create.

“A free vote always existsin the PQ,” Léger said. “We have caucus meetings, we have exchanges, we give ourselves common positions. And when it comes time to vote we vote based on the decision we took at the caucus.”