A gunman killed one and injured another in Montreal, as the separatist government was delivering its victory speech, after it was voted into Quebec, the French-speaking region of Canada, for the first time in nine years.
As he was taken away by police, the gunman, speaking in French, vowed the English would fight back.
The Parti Quebecois (PQ) won 54 of the provincial legislature’s 125 seats, beating the outgoing Liberal government by just 4 seats.
The shortfall in the PQ’s majority means that the party will not have the backing it needs to push for radical reforms and will have to water down many of its election promises.
Turnout for the election however was unusually high at 75 percent, a huge increase from 2008’s 58 percent.
Read the full Reuters article here.
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