The president of the National Assembly of Quebec decreed on Tuesday that all elected officials must be sworn in to the king charles of Great Britain and not just the people of Quebec perform his duties in the predominantly French-speaking Canadian province.

“As the law currently stands, this oath is not optional,” President François Paradis ruled in his decision, adding that a member who does not take an oath cannot sit on the board. Assembly.

Charles, 73, automatically became King of the United Kingdom and head of state of 14 other kingdoms, including Canadawhen his mother Queen Isabelladied September 8.

Shortly after the October 3 elections, the leader of the Quebec partyPaul St-Pierre Plamondon, said he and the two other elected members of his party would not take the oath to the King, the television channel reported Radio Canada, after which 11 Quebec Solidaire elected officials followed suit. Both parties plead canadian independence for Quebec.

The co-spokesperson of Solidarity QuebecGabriel Nadeau-Dubois, described the oath to the King as “colonial, archaic and obsolete”, reports the Radio Canada.

the separatist party Bloc Quebecois also called on the federal government last month to sever ties with the british monarchyclaiming that the recent transfer of the crown to King Charles was the occasion.

Britain colonized Canada in the late 16th century and the country remained part of the British Empire until 1982. It is now a member of the Commonwealth, composed mainly of countries of the former empire having or having had the British monarch at the head of the State. (rts)