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Coalition–Ecology Montreal's 1994 campaign stressed the need for ordinary Montrealers to take a more active role in city governance and to have greater oversight of municipal services. The party promised to create neighbourhood councils that would have real powers over local services and
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The two parties announced plans for an official merger in June 1994, both to overcome the
Democratic Coalition's internal divisions and to create a larger political movement on the municipal left. The merger was approved by Quebec's chief electoral official on August 23, 1994. The Democratic
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Democratic Coalition-Ecology chief," 7 November 1994, p. 4; Peggy Curran, "Power shift; Demo-Eco wants to vote on who sits on MUC council,"
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Montreal did not win any seats in the 1990 election and was largely inactive from 1990 to 1994.
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