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Mouvement socialiste was not initially committed to running candidates for public office, but in 1985 it announced that it would run candidates in the upcoming provincial election to provide voters with a "socialist alternative." Party leader
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Mouvement socialiste fielded ten candidates again in the 1989 provincial election, but was unable to move beyond marginal status. During the election, party members took part in negotiations with the
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The party had fewer than five hundred members at the time. "Quebeckers get socialist alternative", 13 May 1985, p. 3.
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in a bid to create a united left party. By 1991, the
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SĂ©bastien Bouchard and Bernard Rioux, "The Quebec left: then and now",
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In later years, he would shift toward the political centre.
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party that was still in this period aligned with the
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