Elizabeth May resigns as Green Party leader
Posted Nov 4, 2019 10:48 am.
Last Updated Nov 4, 2019 4:08 pm.
OTTAWA – Green Party leader Elizabeth May has announced she is stepping down as the party’s leader,
May told a news conference Monday she will stay on as MP and is appointing deputy leader Jo-Ann Roberts as her successor.
Roberts will hold the role as leader on an interim basis under a leadership vote is held.
Roberts is a former New Brunswick CBC journalist who ran unsuccessfully for the Greens in Halifax in the recent federal election.
.@OntarioGreens leader @MikeSchreiner says he has no aspiration to seek the top spot of federal #greenparty, after @ElizabethMay announced she is stepping down from the helm. @CityNews #Onpoli #CDNpoli pic.twitter.com/eJywaoxLIM
— Cristina Howorun (@CityCristinaH) November 4, 2019
May was re-elected in her riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands — one of just three seats the party secured in the recent federal election.
The Greens would have needed 12 seats to achieve official party status.
May, 65, says she promised her daughter three years ago that the 2019 election would be her last as the party leader — though not necessarily her last as an MP.
