Danielle Smith, the former leader of the Wildrose party – which later reverted to the current United Conservative Party – has announced that it is returning to provincial UCP politics after a seven-year hiatus. Smith said she plans to run in Livingstone-Macleod’s southern constituency and will vote no to the upcoming Kenney leadership review.
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If Kenney fails to get at least the support of the majority in the vote – the results will be announced on May 18 – the party must hold a contest to elect a new leader. The story goes on under the ad “If the members vote that they want to go to a leadership competition? “I would put my name on it,” Smith said. “I would be very happy to represent the people of this province in this capacity.” Smith said Kenney has made progress in job creation and the economy, but has failed on some measures for COVID-19. But most importantly, he said, Kenny ignores the voice of everyday Alberts at the party and in the countryside. “This process seems to have completely collapsed.” Smith left politics in 2015 and has since worked as a talk show host in business as well. He said one reason he returned was the frustration Kenney had recently insulted his opponents as “crazy”. 1:58 Prime Minister Jason Kenney Defends Recorded Comments Calling Opponents of the Party “Crazy” Prime Minister Jason Kenney Defends Recorded Comments Calling Opponents of the Party “Crazy” – March 25, 2022 Another was the anger at the UCP executive who decided last week to change the leadership review from a personal vote to a broader mail-order vote – a move, he said, that seems to favor Kenney. The story goes on under the ad
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Kenney said that if he gets 50 percent plus one vote in the contest, he will remain the leader. Smith said leaders usually insist on receiving much higher acceptance rates and that an absolute majority is not a credible mandate to continue. “If you can not have a significant number of your own members behind you, ready to fight for you and with you, side by side in the next election, you simply will not be able to defeat the NDP.” he said. Smith said it would be wrong for the opposition NDP to dismiss it as “a miracle”. “It’s not. They are terrible. Rachel Notley – she knows the job, the Albertans know it. She is no longer an unknown factor.” Smith said that while she disagreed with some of Notley’s political views, she was surprised to hear that many people in Alberta were willing to give the NDP another chance. Trending Stories
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“You see the latest poll showing that the NDP is ahead of Calgary, ahead of Edmonton, it has 32 percent in rural Alberta. The story goes on under the ad “So we can not take it for granted that rural Alberta will remain UCP.” Asked about Smith’s announcement, Kenny replied: “I am not going to be seduced by voices of division.” But Kenney later appeared to criticize Smith for allowing a candidate to run for Wildrose in the 2012 election, despite previous comments by a candidate urging gays and lesbians to repent or suffer forever in the “lake of fire.” of Hell. “A conservative party in Alberta was blown up in the 2012 election because of the leadership’s failure to prevent extremists from entering the party ballot,” Kenny said. 1:08 Kenney Says He Will Not Allow Recurrence of ‘Lake of Fire’ Answering Question by Danielle Smith Kenney Says He Will Not Allow Recurrence of ‘Lake of Fire’ Incident by Answering Question by Danielle Smith The current UCP MLA for Livingstone-Macleod is Roger Reid, a local businessman. Smith said she told Reid about her plan to run on Wednesday. The story goes on under the ad “I just thought it was the decent thing to do and he makes his own decision about what his future will be,” Smith said. Reed said Friday that he intends to run again. “It has been a lifelong privilege to represent the people of Livingstone-Macleod in the legislature for the past three years and I look forward to a rigorous nomination process in the coming months,” he told Global News. “I will run in this candidacy with the same integrity and dedication to representing these same people. I believe that the best campaign is characterized by hard work and honesty “. Smith became leader of the Wildrose party in 2009 as he flourished as a group of disgruntled Progressive Conservatives who believed the party and their government had abandoned the core values of financial austerity and grassroots participation. Under Smith, the Wildrose became the Official Computer Opposition in 2012. But three years later, Smith and eight other Wildrose members crossed the floor to join the computers under then-Prime Minister Jim Prentice. Alberta Prime Minister Jim Predis and former Wildrose leader Danielle Smith speak to the media after a meeting in Edmonton Alta on Wednesday, December 17, 2014. Jason Franson, The Canadian Press It was a move made without the support of the grassroots party, and one Smith said she deeply regretted it. The story goes on under the ad The move decimated the Wildrose, but managed to survive under new leader and former Conservative MP Brian Jean to eventually merge with computers under Kenney in 2017 to form the UCP. Jean is due to be sworn in next week after winning a recent UCP run-off in the Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche constituency.
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Whether he will be allowed to join the UCP parliamentary group is an open question, as Jean has made it clear that he believes the party is ineligible in 2023 without changes at the top. Jean also has not ruled out the possibility of running for leader. 4:06 How will Brian Jean affect Jason Kenney’s leadership vote at UCP? Is political analyst Jason Ribeiro considering how Brian Jean will influence Jason Kenney’s UCP leadership vote? Political analyst Jason Ribeiro weighs – March 16, 2022 The UCP, meanwhile, is facing angry opposition from dozens of its equestrian club presidents and members of the backbench caucus over changes to the leadership review. The story goes on under the ad “All this speaks to the deep divisions, factions, cracks, within the UCP and the challenge of anyone who wants to try to lead this party to address both the far right and those who may be more moderate conservatives.” said Lori Williams, a political scientist at Mount Royal University in Calgary. “I wonder more and more if this is possible.” In recent years, Smith has hosted a talk radio show at 770 CHQR in Calgary, a Corus-owned radio station that is also the parent company of Global News. After six years on the airwaves, Smith quit her job on the radio last January. – With files from Karen Bartko, Global News © 2022 The Canadian Press
