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The Parti Québécois has acclaimed, as president of its executive council, a party stalwart who arrived in Quebec in 2001.

Dieudonné Ella Oyono, who is of Gabonese origin, was the only candidate to seek the post, which was left vacant by incumbent Gabrielle Lemieux, who held the presidency since 2017.

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Oyono, who holds degrees in economics, started working with the PQ in 2012 and ran unsuccessfully as the party’s candidate the riding of Saint-Henri—Sainte-Anne in the 2018 election. He then became head of the party’s riding association in Pointe-aux-Trembles.

In a statement issued Wednesday, Oyono said the PQ is “a party whose raison d’être is to make Quebec a country. We must be more clear than ever before — our project must be one that is unifying, intergenerational, inter-regional and intercultural. It must be one that touches all Quebecers whether they arrived here 400 years ago or yesterday.”

Oyono’s appointment to the post will be confirmed during a PQ convention scheduled for November.