[2][3] Party founder Richard Gervais, running in Bourget, received 376 votes (2.33%), finishing sixth out of six candidates.
According to former leader Éric Tremblay, the Parti Québécois has given up the will to actively seek the sovereignty of Quebec.
Tremblay considers that, if given a majority of seats at the National Assembly of Quebec, the Parti indépendantiste would have clear mandate to achieve sovereignty, even if it receives less than 50% of the popular vote.
Tremblay did not hide his intention to put an end to all public financing of English-language schools and hospitals come his election, even though he would offer unilingual English-speakers health care in their language.
[15] The Parti Indépendantiste was present at a racist protest organized at Montreal in November 2011 with other well-known neo-Nazi groups.