Parti Quebecois members vote today on new leader to replace Pierre Karl Peladeau

MONTREAL – Members of the Parti Quebecois will begin voting today for a new leader to replace Pierre Karl Peladeau.

More than 73,200 members can vote by phone or online, until Friday at 5 p.m. eastern.

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The leadership candidates are members of the legislature Jean-Francois Lisée, Alexandre Cloutier and Martine Ouellet and the unelected Paul St-Pierre Plamondon.

Recent polls have indicated that Lisée and Cloutier are battling it out for first place, with Ouellet running third and Plamondon languishing in fourth.

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The campaign has focused largely on issues of language, identity and Quebec sovereignty.

Only Ouellet has promised to hold a sovereignty referendum in a first PQ mandate should she win and become premier in the 2018 provincial election.