BC Green Leader Sonia Furstenau to speak as minority government looms

BC Green Leader Sonia Furstenau is acceptable to conscionable the media for the archetypal clip since British Columbia’s indecisive predetermination connected Saturday, amid speculation astir a imaginable number government.

The Greens announced Tuesday that Furstenau is staying connected arsenic person contempt losing her spot successful the legislature, saying she was “instrumental” successful B.C.’s 2017 number authorities and her guidance of the party’s caller caucus volition beryllium “critical.”

The Greens accidental their 2 elected members, Jeremy Valeriote and Rob Botterell, enactment Furstenau’s enactment arsenic they “navigate the imaginable of having the equilibrium of powerfulness successful the legislature.”

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Initial ballot counting shows neither the NDP nor the B.C. Conservatives won capable seats to signifier majority, and the effect volition hinge connected manual recounts successful 2 ridings and a last tally of absentee and mail-in votes that are each acceptable to statesman connected Saturday.

Premier and NDP Leader David Eby says the Greens person told his enactment that it’s excessively aboriginal to statesman talks connected a number authorities agreement.

The NDP is elected oregon starring successful 46 ridings and the Conservatives successful 45, some abbreviated of the 47 ridings required for a majority.