Prince Edward Island provincial election set for April, premier announces | 24CA News
Voters in Prince Edward Island will head to the polls for a provincial election on April 3.
Premier Dennis King, chief of the Progressive Conservative Party, says he visited Lt.-Gov. Antoinette Perry earlier in the present day to dissolve the legislature.
At dissolution, the Progressive Conservatives held 15 seats, the Green Party held eight seats and the Liberals 4.
The Conservatives gained a minority authorities in 2019, however they’ve had a majority since a byelection win a yr later.
The election comes shortly after King’s authorities signed a health-care settlement with Ottawa offering $966 million over the subsequent decade, and it’ll fall six months sooner than known as for within the provincial election legislation.
Political consultants counsel the Progressive Conservatives are favoured to win one other mandate, because the voters isn’t within the temper for change and the opposition is seen as weakened.
