Might we soon have NDP Premier Anjali Appadurai?
Sources in the party say her campaign has persuaded significantly more British Columbians to buy NDP memberships than did rival David Eby’s campaign by the Sept. 4 deadline in order to be eligible to vote for a new leader in December.
But many of the longer-term members have expressed disappointment that the party under Horgan moved toward the centre of the political spectrum in governing. They would view Appadurai, a noted environmentalist who has waged a campaign to shift the party further to the left on climate change and social justice policy, as a more authentic advocate to deal with those issues.
Considerably complicating the situation is that she has yet to be officially approved as a candidate, pending two investigations by the party and Elections BC on whether the environmental group Dogwood improperly used its resources to finance her campaign. As an indication of this new cohort joining the party, an MLA and a riding association official told me there were suddenly large and unrecognizable names on their local membership lists. Typically, they say, they would know personally or know of a large number of local members.
To be fair about the context: Leadership campaigns are often messy matters. Membership drives are typically riven with playing outside the sandbox with false information and hidden expenses. No party has fulfilled anything close to purity on these issues.
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