Will any MLAs lose their jobs because of these direct democracy campaigns? (Probably not)
It was always going to be really hard.
Two of the 26 recall campaigns launched against United Conservative Party and New Democratic Party MLAs have been submitted to Elections Alberta and have fallen short of the number of signatures needed to force a recall vote in those ridings.
The law introduced by the UCP government in 2021 allows a recall election to happen in a riding where petitioners are able to gather the in-person signatures amounting to at least sixty-percent of the number of people who voted the riding in the last provincial election. They only have three months to do it.
That’s a lot of signatures and not a lot of time.
Overturning a free and fair democratic election isn’t something that should be easy to do and, regardless of how you feel about the current government or how MLAs have behaved or misbehaved, they won their election three years ago fair and square.
