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Parti Rhinocéros Party
Party Leader: Sébastien CoRhino
Founded: 1963
Current Number of Seats: Zero
Website: http://www.partyrhino.ca
Profile
The Rhinoceros Party is a satirical political party originally formed in the 1960s.
The party was named for a rhinoceros in Brazil named Cacareco (the party claimed to be spiritual descendants of said rhinoceros), who received 100,000 ‘protest’ votes in the 1958 Sao Paulo council election when Brazilians were unhappy with their voting options.
Cornelius the First, a rhinoceros from a Quebec zoo, was named as the leader of the original Rhinoceros Party.
In 1993, the party lost its official party status when it attempted to abstain from the election, as it failed to run at least 50 candidates in the election. Without party status, the party was dissolved.
The party has run a handful of candidates in various elections who create satirical platforms and campaign messaging. A candidate from Montreal suggested as a platform point that the capital of Canada should be moved to Kapuskasing, Ontario because it is in the centre of the country.
The Rhinoceros Party ran 28 candidates in the 2015 election and 39 candidates in 2019.
In 2019, the party nominated a candidate named Maxime Bernier in the riding of Beauce where the leader of the People’s Party of Canada, also named Maxime Bernier ran for election. Neither Bernier was elected.
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