Kenney urges unity in last speech before leadership ballots are mailed to UCP members

Kenney needs a 50 per cent plus one majority to survive, otherwise the party will be thrust into a leadership contest with roughly one year to go before the…

Speaking to a special general meeting of the party, Kenney characterized the mail-in vote — which will decide whether he continues to lead Alberta’s ruling party — as one that will decide whether the UCP stays united or falls apart.

“I ask for your forgiveness if there were decisions that we made which you think were wrong or which offended you,” he said. “I believe all of our members will expect every member of our caucus, and our team also, to respect the decision of the members democratically expressed,” said Kenney.the in-person meeting in Red Deer to a mail-in ballot after 15,000 people registered to attend.

On Saturday, UCP president Cynthia Moore emphasized the mail-in system is the most democratic way to hold the vote, but critics have raised concerns about changes to the process they have said tilt the odds in Kenney’s favour. Mount Royal University political scientist Duane Bratt told Postmedia Kenney’s speech was full of hyperbole aimed at Notley and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and “red meat” for the party’s base.

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