The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba will choose a new leader on April the 26th but not til 2025.
The leadership committee led by Winnipeg lawyer Brad Zander said the long lead time will benefit prospective candidates and ensure the race, the first to be conducted under new rules approved in January, will run as smoothly as possible.
Zander also said that Manitoba PC’S should benefit in 2025 from the leadup to the federal election that the Conservative Party hopes to win that fall.
The new PC leader will be the first to be chosen by party members since Heather Stefanson won a race to succeed former Premier Brian Pallister in October of 2021. Stefanson served as Premier from November of 2021 til October of 23 when the PC’S were defeated by Wab Kinew’s New Democratic party.
Stefanson stepped down in January, when party members selected Lac Du Bonnet MLA Wayne Ewasko as interim leader.
