Opinion: 'Alberta politics has moved well past being simply unusual and is now neck deep in the bizarre,' writes gthomsonink. 'We don’t know yet is whether the UCP is counting down to a relaunch of Kenney’s career — or to a messy political explosion.'
His position as leader of the United Conservative Party — and therefore his Alberta premiership — is on the line as the party begins the long, drawn-out process of a leadership vote.
Members have until May 11 to mail their ballot back to party headquarters; after a week of examination by scrutineers, we should know the results by May 18. It was a tepid endorsement by a handful of former provincial politicians, eight of whom were Progressive Conservatives MLAs who lost their seats in the 2015 election and two of whom were Wildrose MLAs who took part in a disastrous floor-crossing to the PCs in 2014 that helped bring down the PC government.
Kenney’s popularity has enjoyed a moderate bounceback the past few weeks after he posted a balanced budget and pointed to signs that Alberta’s economy is recovering.by Calgary-based ThinkHQ Public Affairs indicates 61 per cent of Albertans who voted UCP in the 2019 provincial election want a new leader.
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