Green MLA Hannah Bell not running in 2023 P.E.I. provincial election
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CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — Charlottetown-Belvedere MLA Hannah Bell has introduced that she is not going to be operating within the 2023 provincial basic election.
Bell was first elected in a byelection in November 2017, the second Inexperienced MLA elected to the province’s legislature following Chief Peter Bevan-Baker’s breakthrough election in 2015.
Her byelection win was a dramatic sign of the rise in recognition of the P.E.I. Inexperienced occasion within the leadup to the 2019 election. The Progressive Conservatives ended up successful the 2019 election whereas the Greens turned the Official Opposition, besting the then-incumbent Liberals.
Bell is the present Opposition critic for finance and surroundings, power and local weather motion. Beforehand, she served as the home chief for the Opposition Greens.
A provincial election will happen someday in 2023.
SaltWire Community has tried to contact Bell. Jonathan Hamel, director of communications for the Opposition Greens, mentioned Bell was not out there for interviews on Friday.
An emailed assertion by Bell, issued by the Workplace of the Official Opposition, listed a number of coverage modifications Bell mentioned she took delight in, together with securing a renoviction moratorium for tenants, successful a $10-million improve to social help charges, introducing the Poverty Elimination Technique Act and establishing an ostomy help program.
“Now I imagine the time has come for me to create space for brand new views and voices, whereas I discover different methods to serve,” Bell mentioned within the assertion.
“I wish to thank Peter Bevan-Baker, my colleagues within the Official Opposition Inexperienced caucus, the District 11 (Electoral District Affiliation) and the Inexperienced Get together of P.E.I. for his or her friendship, help and management.”
Bell additionally thanked constituents in Charlottetown-Belvedere for offering her the possibility to “step up and be heard, to be a part of historical past, and to have made a distinction.”
Bell mentioned she is going to proceed to function MLA in Charlottetown-Belvedere till the election writ drops.
Bell is the second MLA to announce she is not going to reoffer. Evangeline-Miscouche MLA Sonny Gallant, who served as interim chief of the P.E.I. Liberals, introduced he is not going to run in 2023 in December. He has mentioned he’ll as a substitute give attention to his well being and his household.
