The New Brunswick legislature in Fredericton on Jan. 20, 2021.
Premier Blaine Higgs expected to meet lieutenant-governor to dissolve legislature and begin election.New Brunswick's provincial election campaign is finally getting underway this morning.
A win would make Higgs the first New Brunswick premier to secure a third term since Frank McKenna in 1995.If re-elected, Blaine Higgs would be the first premier to get a third term since Frank McKenna. The Greens, the only other party with seats in the legislature heading into the campaign, held its launch in Fredericton Wednesday.He pointed out that the Greens have defied predictions in the past — when he was elected as the party's first MLA in 2014, and when it elected a total of three MLAs in 2018 and again in 2020.
Meanwhile, first-time NDP Leader Alex White faces an uphill climb to elect a party MLA for the first time in more than two decades.Three new political parties have also registered for the first time to run candidates in this campaign. "The oversight bodies are there but nobody's actually providing the oversight," Roberts said in an interview this week.Leaders of new political parties, including Tanya Roberts, say the existing ones won’t make real change."I'm not here for second place," she says. "We're going to have a hard reset on the government.
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