P.E.I. Liberals move their leadership convention up to October 2025

Stephen Brun · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 17, 2025 4:48 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

The Liberal Party of Prince Edward Island has moved up the day for the lawsuit wherever they'll prime a caller imperishable leader.

The Official Opposition enactment had primitively intended to clasp a enactment league successful 2026, but they volition present take their adjacent person connected Oct. 4 of this year, enactment president Katie Morello said successful a quality merchandise Monday. 

"P.E.I. Liberals are taking the adjacent measurement successful our renewal process and gathering a enactment that tin champion bespeak the concerns of Islanders and is acceptable to govern," Morello is quoted arsenic saying successful the release. 

"At a clip erstwhile Islanders are expecting stableness and amended decision-making, we person taken a measured, well-planned attack which volition culminate connected Oct. 4th."

The Liberals person been without a imperishable person since Sharon Cameron failed to triumph a spot successful the 2023 provincial election. 

Tignish-Palmer Road MLA Hal Perry has served arsenic interim person since that time. He has antecedently said helium volition not question the imperishable enactment erstwhile a normal is held. 

The Liberals and Greens each clasp 3 seats successful the legislative assembly. The Liberals stay the Official Opposition due to the fact that they were incumbents astatine the clip the Greens won a byelection past twelvemonth to adjacent up the 2 parties' fig of MLAs. 

The Greens, who are also helmed by an interim person successful Karla Bernard, recently moved up their enactment normal day to June 7. 

The equilibrium successful the legislature could displacement further earlier the Liberals prime their caller leader. Byelections volition beryllium held to capable the seats vacated by 2 Progressive Conservative members — erstwhile premier Dennis King successful Brackley-Hunter River and Natalie Jameson successful Charlottetown-Hillsborough Park. 

P.E.I.'s Election Act requires an byelection to beryllium called wrong six months of the spot being vacated, but Premier Rob Lantz has not picked a day for either yet. 

The PCs are besides successful request of a imperishable leader. Lantz became the party's interim person aft King's astonishment resignation connected Feb. 20. The enactment has not yet named a day for its enactment convention. 

Leadership crushed rules

Liberal enactment candidates indispensable state their volition to tally by July 4. Applications volition unfastened May 9. 

Hopefuls volition person to rise $7,500 to articulation the race, and an further $15,000 implicit the people of the campaign, 50 per cent of which is reimbursable arsenic run expenses. 

The normal volition beryllium held astatine the Delta Prince Edward successful Charlottetown, with beforehand polling being held passim September. 

Under the presumption of the party's constitution, the cut-off day to go a subordinate of the Liberals and beryllium eligible to ballot successful the enactment contention volition beryllium Sept. 27.  

The fixed day for the adjacent provincial wide predetermination is Oct. 4, 2027, but Morello told CBC News past week that she expects the predetermination to beryllium triggered sooner than that.