Starting Saturday, United Conservative Party members provincewide are to begin receiving ballots on whether to endorse the Alberta Premier’s leadership
As United Conservative Party members prepare to cast ballots on the fate of Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, 19 former conservative legislature members say they support him.
“It is largely for this reason that we will be supporting Premier Kenney in the leadership review,” they wrote. Starting Saturday, UCP members provincewide are to begin receiving ballots on whether to endorse Kenney’s leadership. The ballots are to be mailed back and results announced May 18. Kenney needs majority support or a leadership race must be called.
Kenney has been facing lagging popularity numbers and confrontations with party factions and caucus members unhappy with his leadership, his past COVID-19 policies, and for what they call an imperious top-down management style that ignores the grassroots. There are former cabinet ministers Shirley McClellan, Iris Evans and Pat Nelson and lesser-known backbenchers from the Progressive Conservative party going back to the 1990s.
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