PCs approve deal to merge with Wildrose, uniting Alberta’s right

Alberta’s two main conservative parties have voted to unite.

Progressive Conservative members voted 95 per cent in favour of a deal to merge with the Opposition Wildrose.

The Wildrose overwhelming approved the merger earlier in the day.

The result creates a new United Conservative Party.

PC Leader Jason Kenney and Wildrose Leader Brian Jean had criss-crossed the province in recent weeks to drum up support for a
merger.

There will now be a leadership race for the new party.

Both Kenney and Jean have said they will run and Calgary lawyer Doug Schweitzer has already been campaigning.

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