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The Parti Québécois’ would-be candidate in Maskinongé, Muguette Paillé, will no longer be running in the fall election, after a slew of her comments on far-right social media sites were brought to light Tuesday.

Although PQ Leader Jean-François Lisée called her the “voice of popular wisdom” only five days ago, his press attaché confirmed that after discussions relating to Paillé’s controversial posts, she took herself out of the running.

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Her comments, on sites like the Mouvement Républicain du Québec and Ensemble Nous Vaincrons, numbered in the hundreds and included repeated references to the Quebec premier as “Cheikh Couillard” and to the prime minister as “miniPET” (as in mini Pierre Elliott Trudeau), often calling him a “thief” and a “traitor.”

Her online footprint also included vitriolic and hateful comments about Muslims.

On a closed Facebook group called Non à la Québécophobie et au racisme envers les Québécois (No to Quebecphobia and racism toward Quebecers), for example, she shared a fake news post May 2 about U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren that quoted the senator as saying “If women need to be raped by Muslims to prove our tolerance, so be it!”