Premier Pauline Marois

Pauline Marois: Premier Pauline Marois, first elected to a minority mandate 18 months ago, announced the April 7 vote Wednesday after meeting with her cabinet, according to Huffington Post. Recent polls have suggested her pro-independence party could capture a majority, thanks in large part to significant support from Quebec's ever-important francophone voters and Quebecers will go the polls next month with the Parti Quebecois chasing a majority government that could eventually march the province toward another independence referendum. Flanked by PQ MNAs inside the national assembly, Marois read a statement that listed what she described as her government's accomplishments since defeating Jean Charest's Liberals in September 2012. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.