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QUEBEC — Now they get down to business.

Quebec’s newly elected MNAs will finally meet on common ground Tuesday when the National Assembly — the 42nd legislature in the province’s history — reconvenes for the first time since the Oct. 1 election.

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It will be a short but intense sitting, starting Nov. 27 and ending two weeks later on Dec. 7, but it will nevertheless give Quebecers an idea of where Premier François Legault’s government plans to take the province during the next four years in office.

We’ll also get a good look at the state of the opposition that — while split in three different parties — nevertheless holds 49 of the 125 seats, and that can be useful as it tries to push and influence the party in power.

Up first, however, is a housekeeping matter: the election of a new speaker to mind the store and keep order among the 125 MNAs. Most of them have no experience in parliament and a limited knowledge of its arcane rules of procedure, so we may witness some pratfalls.