Elizabeth May sagt
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/elizabeth-may-not-leading-greens-next-election-1.7612908
Elizabeth May sagt
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/elizabeth-may-not-leading-greens-next-election-1.7612908
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May first stepped down after the 2019 election, but came back after the 2021 election with a co-leadership model. Co-leader Jonathan Pedneault stepped down in 2024, but returned for the 2025 election. In April, he lost his seat and resigned again.
The decision to disqualify the Greens from the debate seems to have been fatal for the party. You wonder whether, if Pedneault had been there, they could have held onto Kitchener Centre, and at least presented a new face to show themselves as being more than the Elizabeth May party.
I also wonder whether this means she’ll run again. If not, that could be the final blow for this party, with May as their final MP.
That makes sense. While she has been an exemplary MP, the party needs a succession plan, as May won’t be in parliament forever. Hopefully they can find someone who can get into parliament, but it will definitely be an uphill battle for a new leader to gain national recognition and get elected, and not end up like Maxine Bernier and the irrelevance of the PPC.
Honestly does this party even need to exist anymore? It just seems like another no-hope vote splitter.
The results since May “stepped down” (not really) have been mixed at best. They had a minute where they seemed to be gaining traction in Atlantic Canada and parts of Ontario, but that was pretty much a one hit wonder.
I never like to see less choice in politics but really, does anyone really feel they would miss this party when its gone?
While it’s not impossible for the green party to keep its seats and potentially gain another couple with the right leader, it’s pretty clear that this is the may party and without her as leader the lil enthusiasm they have goes when she isn’t front and centre. Really it will depend if the NDP gets it’s act together cause if they do I don’t see how the green party has any relevance going forward.
She’s kind of a Michael Corleone „Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!“
The problem for the Federal Greens is that it really is the Elizabeth May Party. She’s the one with all the political capital, and because it’s such a small party relative to the others, it has been unable to foster a new generation of leadership that can measure up to her.
But, as it stands, she’s done her bit for King and Country, and deserves a happy afterlife outside politics.
Even tho I can’t stand the greens, I have a soft spot for May. Just everyone’s kooky grandma. I’ll always remember her drunk speech and playing the guitar with her husband on election night. All the best, stay in retirement this time lol
She’s earned her retirement. The party needs a revamp to stay relevant, and May can only prop it up for so long. They’ll need to do the work to figure things out without her in order to grow properly.
The Greens had no succession plan for May and have been a mess ever since her first “retirement”. Paul was a disaster as leader, and the whole co-leaders experiment was a flop. This past election was an embarrassment not only in terms of the final result but also in failing to nominate enough candidates to get into the leaders debate. And that doesn’t even get into them leaving strong Green ridings like Parry Sound-Muskoka without a candidate. If this party is dead on the national level I wouldn’t be shocked.
In other words, Elizabeth May announces that the Green Leader won’t win their seat in the next election. I guess she could step down in Saanich and let the new leader run there, but I doubt they’d win. May’s victory and Morrice’s defeat spelled the death of the party during the last election, since they’ll never be able to move past her.
The Greens are on the brink of becoming entirely irrelevant next election. Their succession plan has imploded twice and their identity relies entirely on Elizabeth May.
I don’t really see how the Greens will survive without her. These days May is the green party it was clear the last time she left the party couldn’t really survive without her.
The Green Party is a weird unholy alliance of old school PCs, centrists, eco-socialists, leftists who don’t feel welcome in the NDP and other disenfranchised voters.
I just don’t see how the party can move forward with such a broad, disorganized, and disunited voting base especially with how the LPC, NDP, Bloc and even factions of the CPC supporting combatting climate change.
I have soft spot for the Greens I was involved with my local Green Candidates campaign in 2019 (my first ever election) but maybe it’s time for the Greens to either disband or evolve.