Green Party deputy leader stepping down for 'personal reasons'
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Green Party Deputy Leader Jonathan Pedneault has announced he is stepping down, citing personal reasons. He said it had been 'the honour of a lifetime' to serve the country as part of the party.
Green Party Deputy Leader Jonathan Pedneault announced Tuesday he’s stepping down, citing personal reasons.
He said it had been “the honour of a lifetime” to serve the country as part of a party he thinks exemplifies what politics should be about.
Pedneault – a human rights investigator, activist, and documentary maker – broke the news alongside a “heartbroken” Green Party Leader Elizabeth May in Ottawa.
“I'm not going to pretend I'm not unhappy,” May told reporters, “but I respect him.”
The party had billed the Parliament Hill press conference as an "important" update on the leadership of the Green Party of Canada.
May and Pedneault clinched the 2022 leadership campaign on the sixth ballot as one of the double-billed co-leadership tickets in the race, but had since been operating as leader and deputy leader respectively.
That's because making a co-leader model official requires members to approve a change to the party's constitution. That modification has yet to be made, amid internal debates and delays.
