L’ITALIEN CHOSEN TO LEAD NEW BRUNSWICK NDP INTO CONVENTION https://t.co/R1Jk2IgUSr #nbpoli
— New Brunswick NDP (@NB_NDP) January 9, 2017
A retired journalist and former union leader is the provincial NDP party’s choice as interim leader until a convention is held.
Party president Charles Doucet says Rosaire L’Italien has experience, a passion for his job and a proven ability to articulate a progessive message.
Doucet says L’Italien was unanimously selected by the party’s executive at a meeting on Sunday.
Following his retirement from journalism, L’Italien ran federally for the NDP in the riding of Madawaska-Restigouche coming in second and beating the incumbant who was a Conservative cabinet minister.
In a news release, He says the NDP is the only truly inclusive party in the province adding the Liberals have excluded people on a partisan basis and the Conservatives have chosen to exclude people linguistically.
L’Italien has pledged to rally the party around its core principles adding for years the NDP has had a vision where every family has a road to the middle class with good jobs, fair wages and a social safety net.
