(Ottawa) A week after having suffered a crushing defeat, in her riding and across the country, the leader of the Green Party, Annamie Paul, will make a “brief statement” this Monday in Toronto.
According to a source familiar with the exchanges that have taken place in the last few days within the party, she will announce her resignation. His press officer did not give a sign of life on Sunday evening.
“It’s a very sad time for the Green Party, but I think Canadians will remember that she broke a glass ceiling,” said the source. Press agreed to grant anonymity in order to allow him to speak freely.
Annamie Paul succeeded Elizabeth May at the head of the Green Party in October 2020. She was elected on the eighth ballot. His leadership was seriously shaken a few months later, due to an internal feud over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This caused him to lose MP Jenica Atwin of Fredericton, New Brunswick, who went to the Liberals shortly before the election. She then accused Justin Trudeau of a “false feminist”, accusing him of having plotted to weaken his leadership.
Support for the greens in free fall
Under his leadership, the Green Party fell in support, dropping from 6.6% in 2019 to 2.3%. And Annamie Paul, who had put almost all the eggs in the basket of her electoral struggle in Toronto Center, came in fourth, garnering 8.5% of the vote.
In Quebec, the formation garnered 1.5% of the vote. There were many bones of contention between the leader and the Quebec wing, to the point where the latter gave birth to a platform to which Mr.me Paul had not participated.
The Green Party will have elected two candidates on September 20: ex-leader Elizabeth May, in British Columbia, and Mike Morrice, in Ontario, in a riding where the Liberal Party candidate, Raj Saini, made the subject to allegations of sexual harassment.
Annamie Paul will not answer questions from reporters on Monday during her speech in a Toronto park, according to the notice that was sent to the media on Sunday night.