MONTREAL --
Fifteen years after its creation, Quebec solidaire (QS) must prepare to take power in 2022, according to the party's very first deputy, Amir Khadir, who hung up his political skates in 2018.
In an interview on Saturday, Khadir, who was at the forefront of the founding of QS, was delighted that his initially "marginal" political party has become the major alternative on the left in Quebec.
In 2006, the Quebec solidaire party was founded following the merger between the Union des forces progressistes (UFP), for which Khadir was spokesperson, and Option Citoyenne, Francoise David's feminist party.
In its first electoral test in the 2007 general elections, the party obtained less than 4 per cent of the popular vote and failed to elect an MNA.