The Alberta Advantage Party will introduce its leader in Springbrook Saturday.
The AAP leadership convention will be at the Springbrook Multiplex (3216 22 Street, Airport Dr.), just south of Red Deer, at 1 p.m.
The new leader, who will not be revealed until Saturday, won by acclamation, said David Inscho, AAP president.
“We had several people interested in running (for leader), but at the end of the day they figured they could be serve the party in many other aspects,” he said.
In addition to introducing its leader, the party will launch its 2019 election plan and platform positions on a wide range of topics.
The AAP was founded July, 2017 after the “fiasco with the merger” between the Wildrose Party and the Progressive Conservatives, said Inscho, a longtime Wildrose member.
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“The things a lot of people fought for from day one were being swept aside and weren’t even being talked about,” he said. “Whenever someone tries to sell you something, but they won’t say what they’re selling, I’m not interested.”
Inscho has been in politics since the early 1980s. He said many people didn’t like what was happening with the merger.
The AAP has several hundred members despite not being an officially registered provincial party yet, Inscho added.
“We aren’t getting hundreds of members every day, but we’ve been growing steadily … ever since we started,” he said.
Inscho said if all goes well, the party could be officially registered by the end of April. AAP will need 8,000 signatures to register as an official party in the province.
More information can be found at www.albertaadvantageparty.net.
sean.mcintosh@reddeeradvocate.com
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