MONTREAL - PQ leader Pauline Marois basked in a PQ-record support vote of 93 percent at a party conference Sunday, enough to allow her to later reverse a strongly-supported motion to seek a full-out ban on all English signs.
Francine Pelletier, a journalist and documentary filmmaker is a political insider with an insider's perspective on the convention.
Pelletier describes the high-level of support for Marois as a "huge surprise."
She told CTV Montreal's Mutsumi Takahashi that there's a lot more division in the party than they wish to show.
The vote, she believes, is a "show of solidarity with a leader who can then thumb her nose at Jean Charest and as she leads the PQ into the next election."
The newly-ratified policy of extending Bill 101's education provisions onto CEGEPs is opposed by many within the party but PQ member Pierre Curzi has managed to attract enough party members to the idea.
"A lot of people in the PQ are not comfortable with that idea but he's sold it and Marois said she'd accept the idea. So it will be in their next electoral platform," said Pelletier
