Two former cabinet ministers collide: Breaking down the PC leadership battle between Glover and Stefanson
CBC
After Brian Pallister announced he was stepping down as Manitoba's premier and Progressive Conservative leader, no fewer than seven current or former party officials considered a run to replace him.
It took 36 days of jockeying among potential candidates and winnowing by the party to reduce that field to two people.
Early on, cabinet ministers Scott Fielding and Rochelle Squires declared an interest in running for premier before determining they had no path to victory and no interest in the demands of a leadership campaign, respectively.
City Coun. Scott Gillingham assembled a campaign team and canvassed support among party members before he too determined his path to victory was impossible.
PC backbencher Shannon Martin and former party chief financial officer Ken Lee put together formal applications to run but fell short of actually entering the race when the party's leadership election committee determined the final ballot on Thursday.
The Progressive Conservative Party is now left with a straight-up battle between Tuxedo MLA Heather Stefanson and former Conservative MP Shelly Glover, two veteran politicians familiar to Manitobans who watch politics, and familiar with the demands of governance themselves.
"This is now going to be a head-to-head race, whereas we thought it was going to be quite a bit more nuanced," said Mary Agnes Welch, a principal with Winnipeg polling firm Probe Research.
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