Beau Risque a success

Once Mulroney was elected in 1984, Levesque decided to go for the "Beau Risque", renewed federalism. He wanted to drop sovereignty as an issue and focus on constitutional detente, thereby turning the PQ into the Quebec NDP. Half the cabinet resigned, including Doc and Parizeau. Before it got really ugly, he resigned as party leader in June '85, and premier in October. WI Levesque managed to pull it off? IOTL, the polls showed Bourassa leading him by fifteen points at the time of his resignation.
 
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