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Quebec Premier François Legault is expected to step down at a news conference at 11 a.m., according to Radio-Canada sources.
The party he founded, the Coalition Avenir Québec, will have just months to choose a new leader ahead of the provincial election scheduled for this fall.
The resignation comes after months of turbulence that saw ministers leave the party and falling poll results.
Legault has been Quebec’s premier since 2018 and the leader of the CAQ, the nationalist party he founded, since 2011.
He led the CAQ to majority governments in the 2018 and 2022 provincial elections.
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