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Methinks it ain't too hard to figure out why the devious unionized Fake Left/Fake News CBC wackos blocked so many comments as this little circus unfolded its tent in New Brunswick today N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2020/11/new-interim-leader-resigns-shortly.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-brunswick-ndp-to-choose-interim-leader-1.5802758
New interim leader resigns shortly after New Brunswick NDP election
Nathan Davis steps down citing a family emergency; position will be vacant until another vote can be held
CBC News· Posted: Nov 15, 2020 10:43 AM AT Last Updated: 17 minutes ago
New Brunswick NDP to choose new interim leader
Party holding virtual meeting to vote on temporary replacement
CBC News· Posted: Nov 15, 2020 10:43 AM AT
The NDP in New Brunswick is currently without a leader (Hadeel Ibrahim/CBC)
The New Brunswick NDP elected a new interim leader Sunday afternoon, but the position was vacated within an hour.
The party elected communications director Nathan Davis.
But Davis, citing a family emergency, stepped down shortly after the party's virtual meeting ended.
Mackenzie Thomason was the interim leader since March 2019.
He resigned to take over as the party's executive director, which sparked the need for another interim leader.
Thomason was surprised to hear that Davis had resigned, but said he supports his decision.
"The family emergency has put him in a different predicament, a different spot, and he is not able to go forward," he said Sunday evening.
Nathan Davis was elected as the new interim leader for New Brunswick's NDP Sunday afternoon. However, he stepped down from the role within an hour of being elected. (Gary Moore/CBC)
Davis defeated Don Paulin for the job Sunday afternoon. Paulin ran for the NDP as Don Durant in the September election.
The interim leadership position will remain vacant until the party can hold another vote.
Thomason doesn't know when that will happen, but said it could be next month.
The party has been without a permanent leader since Jennifer McKenzie stepped down after the 2018 provincial election.
Thomason led the party through the 2020 snap election, where it failed to win any seats for a fifth consecutive election.
He planned to serve as interim leader for just four months. But he remained after the only leadership candidate was disqualified, and then the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
The NDP won just 1.7 per cent of the vote, down from five per cent in 2018. It was the party's worst showing in 50 years.
Mackenzie Thomason was the most recent interim leader. (Gary Moore/CBC)
It did not run a full slate of candidates in the September election. Several ridings in francophone New Brunswick did not have NDP candidates.
It plans to select a permanent leader before the next scheduled provincial election.
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A relic of a bygone era.
It's hard to tell, at times, what it is doing.
Especially in NB.
They even managed to alienate the unions.