Tees Valley Green Party candidate quit race to stop Ben Houchen from winning

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The Green Party candidate for Tees Valley mayor has told The Yorkshire Post she withdrew from the election because she didn’t want to split the vote and allow Ben Houchen to win a third term in office.

After announcing her intention to stand down as candidate last Friday, Sally Bunce told The Yorkshire Post, “I just couldn’t allow myself to be responsible for allowing back in.” “The main reason I stepped back,” she said, “was because it was becoming clear that votes I would win could potentially take away from other candidates and allow Lord Houchen a third term in office. That’s something I can’t allow to happen.

” According to Ms Bunce, it’s the “transparency, honesty and integrity” at the heart of her campaign that has seen her speak out about the reasons she chose to withdraw from the race. “I was looking forward to the next hustings, but then I started seeing more and more people being positive about Houchen, and it’s the people who vote who were being positive, not the people I fight for. I fight for people who are in the gutter,” she said.

 

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