Green Party leader Peter Bevan-Baker said he’s concerned that incoming Premier Dennis King went to the lieutenant-governor without first having a written agreement of support from either of the opposition parties
Progressive Conservative Leader Dennis King speaks during a debate at the Harbourfront Theatre in Summerside, PEI, on April 16, 2019.The unconventionally convivial relationship of the incoming PEI premier and the Opposition Green party has hit an early rough patch.
On Thursday, he succeeded in receiving the confidence of the lieutenant-governor to form a minority government. Bevan-Baker says it’s too soon for him to say that his party is “absolutely willing” to support the new Tory government in the legislature.
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