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16.09.2020 / 02:41

‘He can do what he wants’: Higgs, New Brunswick Tories are in control after snap election

novel coronavirus, New Brunswickers are sending a Progressive Conservative majority government to Fredericton.Securing 27 seats, compared to the opposition parties’ 22 seats, the Blaine Higgs government will be able to pass bills without support from other parties.The Liberals won 17 of those opposition seats, while the Greens retained three seats and the People’s Alliance lost a seat leaving them with two.

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New Brunswick PCs form majority government as Liberal leader Kevin Vickers steps down

snap election during a global pandemic was the correct one.For Liberal leader Kevin Vickers, Monday’s result is a stunning rebuke to his vocal opposition to the election, which he said was something the province “neither wants or needs.” Live New Brunswick election results 2020: Real-time results in the provincial election The PCs are projected to form a majority government with 27 seats, improving on the minority government Higgs was leading when he called a snap election 28 days ago.“I am excited about tonight’s results,” Higgs said on Monday.“Tonight we have a newfound commitment to each other and to this government’s plan.”The PC Leader will have that and more after retaining his seat in the riding of Quispamsis on Monday, earning

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Decision New Brunswick: Liberal campaign manager calls PC win ‘unfortunate’

Liberal campaign manager Don Arseneault spoke with Global’s Shelley Steeves Monday shortly after Global News declared the Progressive Conservative party, and Premier Blaine Higgs, would form New Brunswick’s next government.

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Live New Brunswick election results 2020: Real-time results in the provincial election

New Brunswick voters headed to the polls on Sept. 14.

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PCs, Liberals set tone for campaigns as New Brunswick election gets underway

Blaine Higgs called an election, party leaders had a chance to set the tone for the next 27 days on the campaign trail.The Progressive Conservatives and Liberals began the day Tuesday at events that started within minutes of each other.

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Kevin Vickers decries election that New Brunswick ‘neither wants or needs’

New Brunswick is heading to the polls on September 14 after a snap election call from Premier Blaine Higgs.

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Higgs says Vickers was under a lot of pressure ‘not to get an agreement’

Speaking to reporters on Monday, New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs said in his opinion, New Brunswick Liberal Leader Kevin Vickers was under a lot of pressure “not to get an agreement” after Higgs had pitched the power-sharing agreement as a deal that would ensure the Tory government survived until the next fixed election date in October 2022.

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N.B. premier proposes stability agreement in order to avoid triggering election during coronavirus

COVID-19 pandemic.In a letter published on Monday, Premier Blaine Higgs asks Liberal Leader Kevin Vickers to sign a formal agreement to “not trigger an election before the fixed election date in 2022 or no earlier than thirty days following the declared end of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, whichever comes first.”Higgs writes that he reached the decision after the thought of an election “weighed heavily” on him over the past six weeks.

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N.B. Liberals clash with government over lack of stimulus spending

New Brunswick’s response to the novel coronavirus pandemic has mostly taken place behind closed doors through meetings of the all-party cabinet committee on COVID-19, but this week the debate was brought to the floor of the legislature.

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Karen Ludwig drops out as Liberal candidate for St. Croix byelection

The New Brunswick Liberal Party is once again looking for a candidate to carry their banner in the pending St. Croix byelection.

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How New Brunswick’s four-step plan to recover from COVID-19 works

New Brunswick is the first province in Canada to begin relaxing the restrictions it put in place to control the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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