Green MLA Jeremy Valeriote will become interim leader until a leadership race in September, after Sonia Furstenau failed to win a seat in the last provincial election.
Sonia Furstenau stepped down as B.C. Green Party leader on Tuesday, three months after failing to win a seat in the fall provincial election.
“I feel like I gave it everything I had and I’m proud of what I’ve accomplished and I’m very comfortable with moving back into private life.” Furstenau stayed on to assist with the transition and to help negotiate a four-year co-operation agreement with the NDP, which won the election with a slim majority of 47 seats to the B.C. Conservative Party’s 44 seats.
Furstenau thanked a long list of volunteers and constituency and legislature staff, campaign and leadership teams and more. “To all of these teams, to everybody along the way, please know my heart bursts with love for all of you,” she said. While there, she successfully fought, over several years, for the cancellation of a waste-discharge permit that allowed a quarry upstream from Shawnigan Lake to store contaminated soil.
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