Soul-searching in order for Manitoba NDP after election loss Tuesday
WINNIPEG — The pundits, the pollsters and even rebels within Greg Selinger’s NDP caucus warned that Tuesday night’s sweeping election loss might happen.
Voter anger over Selinger’s 2013 sales tax hike never faded and attempts to warm voters to Selinger through a series of campaign ads didn’t appear to work.
For Selinger, who announced Tuesday night he is stepping down as party leader, the immediate aftermath of the election was no time to reflect on what went wrong.
“We’ll do a thorough analysis, a post-mortem, of what we feel we did right and what we feel we did wrong,” Selinger said.