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Is a quotient of a reductive group reductive?

Edit [Pete L. Clark]: As Minhyong Kim points out below, a more precise statement of the question is:

Is the quotient of a reductive linear group by a Zariski-closed normal subgroup reductive?

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Is a quotient of a reductive group reductive?

Is a quotient of a reductive group reductive?