'Not an easy choice': Yvonne Jones will not seek N.L. Liberal leadership

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· Posted: Mar 07, 2025 10:15 AM EST | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

Labrador MP Yvonne Jones has ended the speculation: she volition not question the enactment of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador.

"After a large woody of thought and reflection, I person decided not to participate the … enactment race," Jones wrote connected societal media connected Friday morning.

Jones said the encouragement she received successful the days since Premier Andrew Furey announced his upcoming departure from authorities "truly touched my heart," and that she cautiously considered entering the race.

"To everyone who reached retired to maine with encouragement: convey you," she wrote.

"Your enactment means the satellite to me."

Jones congratulated Liberal MHAs John Abbott and John Hogan for entering the race, which volition reason connected May 3 erstwhile registered enactment members person their accidental connected who volition the adjacent person and premier of Newfoundland and Labrador.

The deadline for nominations is March 24.

"They are some strong, susceptible and passionate astir our province's future," said Jones, adding that the state is "well positioned for the future."

Jones, who has doubly been diagnosed with cancer, announced successful January that she volition not beryllium seeking re-election successful the upcoming national election. She has served arsenic the MP for Labrador since May 2013, but her governmental vocation began successful the aboriginal 1990s erstwhile she became politician of her location assemblage of Mary's Harbour, Labrador.

Jones represented the provincial territory of Cartwright-L'Anse au Clair from 1996 to 2013, and was the archetypal pistillate to go person of the provincial Liberal party, serving arsenic either the interim oregon full-time person from November 2007 to August 2011.

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