Oswald Announces to Run For NDP Leadership

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

Canada: Free $30 Oye! Times readers Get FREE $30 to spend on Amazon, Walmart…
USA: Free $30 Oye! Times readers Get FREE $30 to spend on Amazon, Walmart…

Former cabinet minister, Theresa Oswald, has announced to step in the race to become the NDP’s next leader and tussle with Premier Greg Selinger. After filing her nomination papers, Oswald stated on Friday that “it’ll be interesting and I don’t think it’ll be easy, but game on.” She stressed that “I am entering this race to offer an alternative vision and perhaps a renewal for our party moving forward.”

Although Oswald failed promise to repeal the PST increase, she highlighted that real issue for many Manitobans was the rollout of the one-point increase last year and it should have been handled differently. Oswald alleged that “I am different person … we have different styles and different approaches and that in and of itself is critical for something as significant as the PST,” adding that “it came with very little warning, it came with very little consultation.”

Oswald and four other senior cabinet ministers resigned from their positions last month in protest of Selinger’s leadership. However, she alleged that her resignation was not a “diabolical plan” to eventually run for leader. She said that “nobody wanted it to come to this, so I am going to invest and work to do to everything I can to bring us back together.” She confessed that running against a sitting premier is an unprecedented situation and said that “you have a sitting premier, that remains in office, running a race like this — so it’ll be interesting,” while avoiding to say that he had an unfair advantage.

Share with friends
You can publish this article on your website as long as you provide a link back to this page.

Be the first to comment

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.


*