Dissident members of New Brunswick’s Progressive Conservative get together have didn’t set off a management evaluate for Blaine Higgs.
Andrea Johnson, the get together’s government director, says the members didn’t meet the standards to pressure a vote on whether or not the premier ought to step down as chief of the New Brunswick Tories.
Party guidelines say no less than 50 members of the get together — together with 26 ridings presidents — should request a evaluate.
The deadline to gather the signatures was prolonged from Aug. 19 to Aug. 26, and it’s nonetheless unclear what number of members took half within the motion to oust Higgs.
Divisions within the get together got here to the floor after the Higgs authorities modified the province’s coverage on sexual orientation and gender id in faculties.
Higgs’s workplace didn’t instantly return a request for remark at this time.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Aug. 29, 2023.
