NDP Leader Alison Coffin said another election within the next year would be ‘destructive’ and unnecessarily slow the province’s economy
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In an interview, NDP Leader Alison Coffin said another election within the next year would be “destructive” and unnecessarily slow the province’s economy. Crosbie described the results as “a situation of constitutional instability” and said he would be reaching out to Independent and NDP members in the coming days.“They will have to struggle for the next months and years to hang on to power,” he said of the Liberals.
Coffin congratulated Ball on his “fine” campaign in her Thursday night speech, though she said to applause that the premier had met a “formidable adversary” in her.“If minority government really is interested in true debate and actually solving the problems that exist instead of putting band-aids over them, and they’re willing to talk, then I think we have the real potential for getting a lot of work done here,” she said.
Coffin said she had been skeptical of speculation that the NDP would be shut out of the house of assembly, but she said the five-vote victory for Jordan Brown in Labrador, still pending a recount, was a “pleasant surprise.” Lane, who also previously sat as a Tory, said in an interview Friday that he was asked to join all the province’s political parties before the election and his answer is still a firm no.
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