'Closer than I think people expected': political commentators believe Danielle Smith needs to unify Alberta's United Conservative Party after close vote to win party leadership yyc UCP
“I think it shows she’s got an issue with party unity,” said Duane Bratt, a political science professor at Calgary’s Mount Royal University.
Smith’s at times fiery victory speech took aim at the federal government, which she accused of landlocking Alberta’s energy sector and infringing on the rights of Albertans to make their own decision about their bodies.
“She has said she will run in a byelection but not for an open seat that’s already there like Calgary-Elbow, but some place in southern Alberta,” Bratt said.Alberta UCP leadership candidate Danielle Smith says if elected, she won’t call early election Ribeiro suggested that Smith’s victory speech did seem to address an audience outside her base, but not in the way some may have expected.
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