UCP Membership Soars as Intraparty Fight Over Alberta Premier’s Leadership Escalates

UCP Membership Soars as Intraparty Fight Over Alberta Premier’s Leadership Escalates
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announces funding and new steps being taken to help support Albertans experiencing homelessness and domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic, in Edmonton on November 17, 2021. The Canadian Press/Jason Franson
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An upcoming vote to decide the fate of Jason Kenney as United Conservative Party leader and Alberta premier is driving up membership numbers and igniting concerns about possible rule changes and ballot box shenanigans.

UCP executive director Dustin van Vugt, in a Sunday email to constituency presidents, said the number of people who are signed up for the April 9 vote of confidence has reached almost 14,000.