This is the end of the New Brunswick People’s Alliance

The New Brunswick people alliance is no longer officially recorded as a political party by NB elections since June 30.

NB elections explains that it has received a cancellation request from the party leader, Rick Desaulniers, a week before the effective date.

The populist right -wing party, founded in 2010 by Kris Austinopposed official bilingualism. The alliance of people wanted in particular a single bilingual health network, a single school transport system, fewer bilingual positions in the public service and the abolition of the official language police station.

The alliance of people has already experienced a cancellation in the past. In 2022, the two deputies elected under this banner, Kris Austin et Michelle Conroyhad decided to join the ranks of progressive advisers in power in the government of Blaine Higgs.

During the last elections, these two deputies were re-elected as progressive-conservatives. Their former party was not able to have deputy elected.

The chief’s departure Kris Austin And the vampirization of the alliance by the progressive-conservatives had been a blow for the party.

When Mr. Austin was a chef, he was a very popular leader for this party. I don’t think there was another person who could come back after him to fill his shoesexplains Mario Levesque, professor of political science at the University of Mount Allison.

Even if the party no longer exists, its ideas, especially on French -speaking files, do not disappear. Mario Levesque would not be surprised to see the party reborn from its ashes in one form or another in a few years.

They need the youngest members in this party to continue. But, as the leader and other people in the party tell us, they do not have the people: young people are not there now.

The ex-head of the Alliance, Rick Desaulniers, and former candidates that we contacted did not respond to our interview requests.