Alberta NDP sets rules for leadership contest naming new party leader by June
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The Alberta NDP will have a new leader on June 22.
Alberta's New Democrats have mapped out rules for a leadership contest that will begin Feb. 5.
The party's provincial council issued the rules late Saturday, saying candidates who wish to run have until March 15 to register.
Application and disclosure forms for prospective leadership race contestants will be available Monday, according to Amanda Freistadt, chief returning officer of the Alberta NDP leadership race.
"I believe we're going to see a group of united candidates who are very, very interested in continuing and growing [the party's] legacy," Freistadt said.
Anyone seeking the leadership must be a member of the NDP for the last six months and pay a $60,000 entry fee. Each contestant in the leadership race will have a spending limit of $500,000.
Leadership contestants will also need to publicly disclose their donors.
"Dark money from extreme right-wing groups have no place in our movement," Freistadt said.
The leadership contest was triggered when former Alberta premier Rachel Notley stepped down as the provincial NDP leader earlier this month.
Notley, who led the Alberta NDP for almost a decade, said during a news conference earlier this month that the NDP's failure to win government in Alberta's 2023 election meant it was time for her to step down as leader.
Notley led the NDP to an upset electoral victory in 2015, ending 44 years of Progressive Conservative rule in the province.
After four years as Opposition leader, Notley and her team won 38 of the legislature's 87 seats in May 2023, forming the largest Opposition in the province's history.
Notley will stay on as leader until members choose a replacement.
Feo Snagovsky, political scientist at the University of Alberta, said the Alberta NDP is now considered a competitive party for government.
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