EDMONTON — An upcoming vote to decide the fate of Jason Kenney as United Conservative Party leader and Alberta premier is driving up membership numbers and igniting concerns about possible rule changes and ballot box shenanigans.
UCP executive director Dustin van Vugt, in a Sunday email to constituency presidents, said the number of people who are signed up for the April 9 vote of confidence has reached almost 14,000.
About 2,800 showed up at the party’s founding convention in 2018.
“Our membership has more than doubled,” wrote van Vugt in the email obtained by The Canadian Press.
Saturday was the cutoff day for new members to sign up to vote, but existing members have another three weeks to do so.
“(There are) 13,718 members registered for our (special general meeting) by the early-bird deadline and registration is still open with three weeks to go,” wrote van Vugt.
“It’s not unreasonable to predict that we could get as high as 20,000 people.”
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