EDMONTON – Alberta’s Progressive Conservative party will hold a nomination meeting after all for an upcoming byelection in the riding of Calgary Greenway.
Party leader Ric McIver says the party’s board of directors has overturned a decision by the constituency board to appoint Prabhdeep Gill to be the party’s candidate in the March 22 vote.
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McIver says the party got an ear full of criticism that suggested the decision to appoint a candidate was unfair and undemocratic.
McIver notes the Calgary Greenway board had to scramble to make a decision after Premier Rachel Notley dropped the writ on the byelection Monday.
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Most of the opposition parties have yet to nominate candidates.
Four candidates, including Gill, will fight for the PC nomination on Saturday.
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