Inside the B.C. NDP leadership ‘trainwreck’

By The Big Story

In today’s Big Story podcast, it seemed like there was a fight for the soul of the party that also governs the process. Until there wasn’t. A week before the vote, the challenger with all the momentum was disqualified from the race, paving the way for long-time MLA David Eby to become leader, and the province’s premiere.

Arno Kopecky, is a BC-based environmental journalist, who covered the race for Canada’s National Observer.

So, what happened? What was the split dividing the party, and how did the contest come to such an abrupt end?

“About two weeks ago, the parties seemed to start panicking and launching all these accusations of basically cheating and malfeasance against Anjali Appadurai, and rumors started abounding that she had generated thousands of new memberships,” said Kopecky.

What happens now to challenger Anjali Appadurai and the thousands of new members she’d recruited? And what does this do to Eby’s forthcoming attempts to govern a province on the front lines of Canada’s climate crisis?

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