NDP Allows Premier Selinger to Keep Job during NDP Leadership Campaign

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Manitoba New Democratic Party has decided that Manitoba Premier, Greg Selinger, can keep his job and work while campaigning to keep his job as leader of the Manitoba New Democratic Party. A motion was put down by the party, which aimed to force Premier Greg Selinger to take a leave of absence while running for the leadership of the party.

The NDP Provincial Council met in the Radisson Hotel in order to formalize the rules for leadership race at the party’s annual convention. Several party members have urged Premier Greg Selinger to at least take a leave of absence in order to ensure a fair contest. One of five cabinet ministers who resigned in protest of Selinger’s leadership, Jennifer Howard, informed that she has had many sad, angry and supportive conversations with party members in recent weeks. She stressed that “we are not going to hand the next election to Pallister and the Conservatives,” adding that “we are not going to lose everything that we worked for, but in order to do that we have to come back together, and a fair leadership process allows us to unite behind whoever is the leader, and move forward.”

Whereas on the other hand, Selinger addressed reporters at the podium during the meeting but refused to answer any of the reporters’ questions after the meeting. He said “we’ll let the delegates do their job, and we’ll see what comes out.”