B.C. Green Party leadership vote postponed due to pandemic
Posted March 27, 2020 2:53 pm.
VICTORIA (NEWS 1130) – The B.C Green Party has postponed it leadership vote due to COVID-19.
The leadership vote was scheduled for Nanaimo at the end of March.
The party council hasn’t decided when the leadership ballot will take place, but Adam Olsen will remain as interim leader.
“The B.C. Green Party Provincial Council has unanimously voted to postpone our leadership contest for the foreseeable future due to the COVID-19 crisis,” Sat Harwood, chair of the B.C. Green Party Provincial Council, says in a release.
The BC Green Party Provincial Council has unanimously voted to postpone our leadership contest for the foreseeable future. We will also be cancelling our annual Convention and our annual general meeting will be held online. See details here: https://t.co/tW9kU0lKco pic.twitter.com/NcngUF5HhX
— BC Green Party (@BCGreens) March 27, 2020
“The COVID-19 crisis has impacted our lives in countless ways,” Olsen added. “A leadership contest in the midst of a pandemic cannot embody participatory democracy, one of our party’s six core principles. Instead, we must put our efforts into taking care of one another. The work of the B.C. Green Party continues in supporting emergency legislation, distributing essential information and getting people the support they need.”
The party has also cancelled its annual convention, originally scheduled for June.
An attempt will be made to hold an annual general meeting online.
In October, Andrew Weaver announced he was stepping down as party leader and not to run for re-election as MLA for Oak Bay-Gordon Head in 2021. He left as party leader in January.