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The Parti nationaliste du Québec was a minor political party in Canada.
It was founded by supporters of the Parti Québécois after the Social Credit Party of Canada lost all of its seats in Quebec in the 1980 federal eleciton. Social Credit, which had only marginal support outside of Quebec, attracted many Quebec nationalists as a party that could represent Quebec's interests in the Canadian House of Commons.
The Parti nationaliste was a successor to the Union Populaire, a party that had little success in the 1979 and 1980 federal election.
The Parti nationaliste was undermined by the success of Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservative Party in building a coalition with Quebec nationalists to defeat the federal Liberal Party. The Parti nationaliste never won any seats, but is seen by many as a predecessor to the Bloc Québécois.
The Parti Nationaliste was founded by Marcel Léger, who became its interim leader on September 14, 1983 until May 17, 1984. Léger was one of the first Parti Québécois members elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 1970 Quebec provincial election. He was appointed Minister of the Environment in the first PQ cabinet in 1976, but was dropped from Cabinet in 1982.
He was replaced as interim leader by Denis Monière, who was defeated in the 1984 federal election that brought Brian Mulroney to power.
Monière went on to help found the Parti indépendantiste in 1985, which was a Quebec provincial party rather than a federal party.