Ahava Kálnássy de Kálnás to lead Island party candidates in first P.E.I. election since 2011
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SOURIS, P.E.I. — The Island occasion has introduced its candidates for the 2023 P.E.I. election, and the occasion has a brand new chief.
Ahava Kálnássy de Kálnás will take the reins for a celebration that returns to the poll on April 3 for the primary time since 2011.
Kálnássy de Kálnás was one in every of a number of tenants who not too long ago fought an eviction from landlord D.P. Murphy Inc., successful final month.
This expertise and others with the authorized and medical techniques started the trail to politics, Kálnássy de Kálnás stated in a March 10 SaltWire Community interview at their house in Souris.
“(That authorized battle) introduced us all to an understanding that we will all come forth and inform our reality and converse our reality to energy, and that the reality, the regulation, will prevail.”
“(That authorized battle) introduced us all to an understanding that we will all come forth and inform our reality and converse our reality to energy, and that the reality, the regulation will prevail.” – Ahava Kálnássy de Kálnás
Platform
Paul Smitz, occasion president, and 4 candidates or potential candidates, gathered at Kálnássy de Kálnás’ house to formally announce the choice as chief.
The occasion platform consists of rescinding the Municipal Authorities Act, holding common city corridor conferences to get public suggestions, and implementing recall laws to take away dishonest MLAs from energy.
“The (MGA) takes away folks’s rights, and it is a violation of the constitution of rights,” Smitz stated. “To rectify these errors, particular person residents should pay an enormous sum of money to go to courtroom, the authorized charges, to problem it.”
Extra personally, Kálnássy de Kálnás is working partially to carry extra range to the legislative meeting.
Kálnássy de Kálnás is a queer Jewish individual, who can also be disabled. Incapacity turned a key curiosity after they have been injured falling down the steps of their residence final yr.
This yr, nonetheless utilizing a wheelchair, Ahava Kálnássy de Kálnás has discovered there’s little assist for disabled folks attempting to enter politics to make issues higher for different disabled folks.
“Well being P.E.I. and AccessAbility haven’t collaborated to supply me with incapacity assist despite the fact that I requested them to take action. And I additionally requested them for his or her program for incapacity assist for full train of democratic rights, and I haven’t even obtained a replica of what that assist is,” they stated.
Logan MacLean is a range reporter with the SaltWire Community in Prince Edward Island. He could be reached by electronic mail at [email protected] and adopted on Twitter @loganmaclean94.
