Ex-Wildrose leader Danielle Smith returns to Alberta politics, will vote against Kenney leadership
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If Jason Kenney loses the upcoming leadership review, then the UCP must hold a contest to pick a new leader — a race Danielle Smith says she wants in on.
The machinations wracking Jason Kenney and his party took a new twist Friday with the return of a former leader promising to vote against the Alberta premier in his leadership review and then trying to take his job.
Danielle Smith, the former leader of the Wildrose party — which later folded into the current United Conservative Party — announced she is coming back to provincial politics for the UCP after a seven-year hiatus.
Smith said she plans to run in the southern constituency of Livingstone-Macleod and will vote no in the upcoming mail-in review of Kenney’s leadership.
If Kenney fails to get at least majority support in the vote — the results are to be announced May 18 — the party must hold a contest to pick a new leader.
“If the members vote that they want to go to a leadership contest? I would put my name in on that,” Smith said.
Smith said Kenney has made progress on job creation and the economy, but failed on some COVID-19 measures.
But most importantly, she said, Kenney is ignoring the voice of everyday Albertans in the party and the province.
“That process seems to be completely broken down.”
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