Leona Alleslev to announce candidacy for Conservative leadership Wednesday – National
Former Conservative deputy chief Leona Alleslev is predicted to formally declare a bid for the occasion management in Ottawa on Wednesday.
The previous Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill MP, who crossed the ground from the Liberals to Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives in 2018, is predicted to make her bid official at a day press convention on Parliament Hill.
International Information reported on Mar. 24 that Alleslev had launched a management web site. Volunteers have been seen accumulating signatures for her run on the posh Metropolitain Brasserie in downtown Ottawa in late March.
Requests for interviews with Alleslev in March and on Tuesday didn’t get a response.
Alleslev’s first activity will likely be to lift sufficient cash to make the management contest’s April 29 cutoff, when a complete of $300,000 in a compliance deposit and registration charges are because of Conservative HQ.
Conservative MP and former management candidate Leslyn Lewis introduced Monday that she had already submitted the total quantity to the occasion, claiming to be the primary candidate to take action.
Alleslev can even have to gather endorsements from no fewer than 500 Conservative occasion members from 30 separate ridings in seven completely different provinces, probably a extra surmountable activity.
The previous advisor and navy officer was first elected as a Liberal MP in 2015, when Justin Trudeau swept to energy with a majority authorities.
In 2018, she crossed the ground to the Conservatives, and steered that after three years within the authorities backbench, amid rising international instability she had misplaced religion in her former occasion. Scheer made her deputy chief.
She was re-elected within the 2019 election, at the same time as Conservative fortunes light within the GTA. Alleslev misplaced her second re-election bid in 2021 to Liberal MP Leah Taylor Roy.
