B.C. NDP leadership hopeful warns party against ‘nuclear option’ of disqualifying her

Appadurai denies her campaign has done anything wrong. B.C. New Democratic Party leadership hopeful Anjali Appadurai is urging the party executive not to use what she called an undemocratic “nuclear option” to disqualify her, a move that would make David Eby the sole contender to become the next premier. Party executives were expected to decide later Wednesday whether Appadurai can stay in the contest to replace Premier John Horgan.
A report from the NDP’s chief electoral officer, Elizabeth Cull, obtained by The Canadian Press, recommends Appadurai be disqualified over alleged breaches of contest rules, such as an alliance with an environmental group and the wooing of former B.C. Green Party members. Appadurai denies her campaign has done anything wrong. She says they used grassroots organizing to sign up thousands of new members to vote in the race — significantly more than Eby, the former attorney general and minister responsible for housing. “And so the party had a choice. Let all the members of the party, new and old, choose the next leader and risk having a climate champion in the premier seat or take this undemocratic approach and disqualify the candidate,” Appadurai said at a news conference in Vancouver on Wednesday…Source: vicnews.com