Trio of New Democrat MPs blast party’s selection process for interim leader [Video]

Three NDP MPs have called out the party’s executive and national council, claiming caucus wasn’t properly consulted in the recent selection of its interim leader. 

The party announced last week that veteran MP Don Davies would serve as interim leader after Jagmeet Singh stepped down following the party’s worst electoral performance in decades.

But a trio of re-elected MPs — Leah Gazan from Manitoba, Lori Idlout from Nunavut and B.C.’s Jenny Kwan — wrote to the executive and national council just days after Davies was named interim leader saying they felt “excluded in the process.”

“Whatever else might be said about the process, it is clear by our own disappointment, that it failed to uphold democratic and transparent principles,” the letter reads.

“After our historic loss, how we proceed forward matters. Selecting an interim leader in this fashion sets them up for failure, not success.”

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