In the entire history of the country, no member of this group had been elected to govern one of the ten Canadian provinces.
Social democratic politician Wab Kinew will be the first indigenous person in Canadian history who will govern one of the provinces of the country after winning Tuesday’s election in Manitoba.
Kinew’s New Democratic Party (NDP) has gained the upper hand over the ruling Conservative Party (PC), Canadian media reported on Wednesday. Although the counting of votes has not yet been completed, the NDP will obtain a minimum of 30 deputies which guarantees him a majority in the Manitoba Provincial Assembly, which has 57 seats.
The PC obtained 19 deputies and the Liberal Party (PL) one. As of Wednesday morning, the final seven seats were still undecided.
Although the population of First Nations, one of Canada’s three indigenous groups, numbers more than a million people, In the entire history of the country, no member of this group had been elected to govern one of the ten Canadian provinces.
The leader of the NDP nationally happens to be Jagmeet Singh, who is of Sikh origin and who in 2017 became the first member of a minority to lead a national political party in Canada.
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