This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.A councillor from the city's oldest civic party has quit the organization to sit as an independent, saying that the Non-Partisan Association has been infiltrated by a group that has far-right and anti-gay-inclusion beliefs.
Ms. Bligh’s resignation and statements have also generated massive turmoil among current and past NPA supporters and politicians, many of whom say that it sets the stage for a massive schism in a party that had dominated Vancouver politics for decades in the second half of the 20th century.Some predict that the current surge of more right-wing people onto the party's board is a losing formula for the NPA, which almost succeeded in winning control of council in the 2018 civic election.
The uproar within the NPA started with a board election in late November that saw two loosely affiliated factions competing for positions. One group was endorsed by the NPA's unsuccessful mayoral candidate for 2018, Ken Sim. The other included some people who had split off from the NPA during the election, feeling that they were being shut out by then-party president Peter Armstrong and his supporters, and had run with other new parties.
Lol. Far left exposes themselves
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