WINNIPEG –
Manitoba’s governing Progressive Conservatives have chosen Heather Stefanson as their new chief and the province’s subsequent premier.
Stefanson, the province’s former well being minister, was operating in opposition to former member of Parliament Shelly Glover, and received by a margin of lower than 400 votes.
“I am prepared to handle the numerous challenges going through us,” Stefanson mentioned in her victory speech.
“We are going to face these challenges collectively.”
The management race started in the summertime after former premier Brian Pallister introduced he was stepping down.
The competition was lately marred by complaints that many occasion members didn’t obtain mail-in ballots in time to vote, and Glover referred to as for the vote rely to be delayed.
Stefanson will turn into Manitoba’s first feminine premier as soon as she is sworn in.
The subsequent election is slated for October 2023.
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