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Both B.C. NDP and Conservatives optimistic contempt nary wide victor yet successful the election
BC NDP Leader David Eby is slated to clasp a property league connected Tuesday day and this volition beryllium the archetypal clip helium has spoken publically since predetermination night.
Eby’s New Democrats presently beryllium astatine 46 seats, lone 1 shy of the 47 needed for a majority.
The BC Conservatives person 45 seats, and the BC Greens person two; however, absentee and mail-in ballots are inactive being counted.
Ballots are being recounted successful the Juan de Fuca-Malahat and Surrey City Centre ridings arsenic those ridings had results of little than 100 ballots betwixt the apical 2 candidates.
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If the results hold, the NDP would person the accidental to effort and pb a number authorities with the Greens’ support.
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B.C. predetermination 2024: BC NDP person David Eby connected results ‘We knew each ballot would matter’
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On Monday, BC Conservative Leader John Rustad spoke with Global News and said helium believes his enactment could find communal crushed with the BC Greens.
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“There are definite issues that are important for the Green Party that we tin person a speech astir without compromising any, if all, of the principles we person arsenic the Conservative Party,” Rustad said.
More to come.
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