{"id":403428,"date":"2019-04-20T14:59:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T13:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/right-wing-populist-united-conservatives-win-alberta-election-as-ndp-vote-plummets\/"},"modified":"2019-04-20T14:59:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T13:59:40","slug":"right-wing-populist-united-conservatives-win-alberta-election-as-ndp-vote-plummets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/right-wing-populist-united-conservatives-win-alberta-election-as-ndp-vote-plummets\/","title":{"rendered":"Right-wing populist United Conservatives win Alberta election as NDP vote plummets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Right-wing populist United Conservatives win Alberta election as NDP vote plummets<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Roger Jordan<br \/>\n    <br \/>20 April 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The right-wing populist United Conservative Party (UCP) led by former federal cabinet minister Jason Kenney swept to power in Tuesday\u2019s provincial election in Alberta, securing 63 out of the legislature\u2019s 87 seats.<\/p>\n<p>This result was principally the outcome of popular opposition to the right-wing record of the province\u2019s one-term New Democratic Party (NDP) government, and the recent, big business-promoted unification of Alberta\u2019s right-wing parties, the Progressive Conservatives and Wildrose, under the UCP banner.<\/p>\n<p>The coming to power of the UCP will be used to push not just Alberta, but Canadian establishment politics as a whole still further right. At the same time, the triumph of the \u201cAlbert First\u201d UCP will intensify regional tensions within the Canadian ruling class and its federal state.<\/p>\n<p>While posturing as a fighter for the little guy ravaged by the crisis wracking the province\u2019s energy sector, Kenney pledged to slash taxes and regulations for big business and impose a four-year government spending freeze. Appeals to Alberta and western regionalism and to anti-Quebec chauvinism were also central to the UCP campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The corporate media has been quick to claim that the UCP was swept to power by a groundswell of support for its reactionary agenda. This is a lie aimed at delegitimizing the resistance that will soon emerge within the working class to the government\u2019s austerity measures.<\/p>\n<p>Despite overwhelmingly favourable media coverage and the quasi-unanimous support of the province\u2019s corporate elite, Kenney only won a modest gain in votes as compared with the combined total taken by the Progressive Conservatives and Wildrose parties in 2015. In&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/04\/20\/albe-a20.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Right-wing populist United Conservatives win Alberta election as NDP vote plummets By Roger Jordan 20 April 2019 The right-wing populist United Conservative Party (UCP) led by former federal cabinet minister Jason Kenney swept to power in Tuesday\u2019s provincial election in Alberta, securing 63 out of the legislature\u2019s 87 seats. This result was principally the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}