The official agent for Nova Scotia’s Green Party says the party is still registered with Elections Nova Scotia and will field candidates in the next provincial election.
Written in a blog post on the party’s website, official agent Ian Charles said reports of the party’s demise “have been greatly exaggerated.”
On Tuesday the party’s outgoing interim leader wrote a blog post saying the party was folding because of low member engagement and a lack of leadership candidates. “With no one having stayed the course, or stepped forward for the leadership of the party, we are no longer able to function,” Brynn Nheiley, outgoing interim leader, wrote.
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Charles is refuting those claims saying the party’s executive was divided and not everyone agreed with Nheiley’s comments, writing that the Green Party in Nova Scotia “is very much in existence.” However, he did say the party will need more involvement from Green Party members in the future.
“The outpouring of supportive comments on social media has certainly illustrated that there is still tremendous support for the Green Party NS across this great province,” Charles wrote. “We can engage these supporters with a solid group effort from all Nova Scotians that have labelled themselves as politically Green.”
The blog post goes on to say that the party will appoint an interim leader by July 9.
In a nod to the speculation that Premier Stephen McNeil will call an early election, Charles said when there is an election, candidates will be running under the green banner.
“There is a good chance that there will be an election this fall. There is a 100% chance that the Green Party NS will run candidates for the next Provincial Election,” he wrote.
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