Two Votes And The Pact Between Stephane Dion And Gerald Kennedy
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Two votes. Two delegates possibly decided the fate of the Liberal party and possibly the future of Canada. If two delegates had decided that they would have sided with Gerald Kennedy, then it would have been Kennedy who might have been the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
After the second round of voting Gerald Kennedy gave Stephane Dion all his support. Moving Dion from third place to first in one round. Le Devoir is reporting that this not by chance, rather the two men had made a pact few days before to give the other the support depending on who is ahead.
Amateurishly translated from the Le Devoir.
The two men had sealed a solid alliance which stipulated that that whoever came in fourth at the end of the second ballot would throw in his support to the third place candidate. The agreement had been in place between the two candidates several days before the convention, but nothing had been set in stone. Wednesday evening, Gerald Kennedy was to go to the residence of Stephan Dion to discuss the possibilities, but all the campaign jostling that was occurring at the Palais des congrès prevented the two men from going in the St. Lawrence district (Dion's residence) which is 25 minutes from Old Montreal. Therefore they met in a small room of the Palais des congrès.
The two men then agreed to support each other then. At the time of the agreement, all had expected to see Kennedy finishing third after the first ballot, in front of Dion. It is with this future result in mind the two men meet Friday evening, very late and shook on it. It is done. “Our blow had been well planned. It was known that one was likely good to pass in front of Kennedy to the second turn”, explaied to the Devoir an organizer of Stephan Dion.
After the first ballot it was Dion that was in front of Kennedy by 2 votes. However, Martha Hall Findlay, threw in her support with Dion. Even though she had only 130 delegates with her first Ballot, it can presumed that she brought in 90% of her delegates with her. Just enough to widen Dion's lead on Kennedy.
Gerald Kennedy could have then chosen to remain in the race. But he decided to join Stephan Dion immediately, like agreed in their pact.
It was the watershed moment of this race. The proof of the “maturity” of Mr. Kennedy, believes one of his organizers in Quebec, Louise Fleishmann. The Kennedy clan did not want another candidate to gain the victory: Bob Rae.
The camp of Gerald Kennedy believed that Bob Rae incarnates an older generation of politicians not having proposed anything concrete in this race. By seeing Mr. Dryden joining there, Gerald Kennedy feared that the momentum would go there.
The switching of Kennedy to Dion's side resulted in pretty much his whole delegates going with him. Rae did not even get 5% of Kennedy's delegates.
You can read the rest of the article here
After the second round of voting Gerald Kennedy gave Stephane Dion all his support. Moving Dion from third place to first in one round. Le Devoir is reporting that this not by chance, rather the two men had made a pact few days before to give the other the support depending on who is ahead.
Amateurishly translated from the Le Devoir.
The two men had sealed a solid alliance which stipulated that that whoever came in fourth at the end of the second ballot would throw in his support to the third place candidate. The agreement had been in place between the two candidates several days before the convention, but nothing had been set in stone. Wednesday evening, Gerald Kennedy was to go to the residence of Stephan Dion to discuss the possibilities, but all the campaign jostling that was occurring at the Palais des congrès prevented the two men from going in the St. Lawrence district (Dion's residence) which is 25 minutes from Old Montreal. Therefore they met in a small room of the Palais des congrès.
The two men then agreed to support each other then. At the time of the agreement, all had expected to see Kennedy finishing third after the first ballot, in front of Dion. It is with this future result in mind the two men meet Friday evening, very late and shook on it. It is done. “Our blow had been well planned. It was known that one was likely good to pass in front of Kennedy to the second turn”, explaied to the Devoir an organizer of Stephan Dion.
After the first ballot it was Dion that was in front of Kennedy by 2 votes. However, Martha Hall Findlay, threw in her support with Dion. Even though she had only 130 delegates with her first Ballot, it can presumed that she brought in 90% of her delegates with her. Just enough to widen Dion's lead on Kennedy.
Gerald Kennedy could have then chosen to remain in the race. But he decided to join Stephan Dion immediately, like agreed in their pact.
It was the watershed moment of this race. The proof of the “maturity” of Mr. Kennedy, believes one of his organizers in Quebec, Louise Fleishmann. The Kennedy clan did not want another candidate to gain the victory: Bob Rae.
The camp of Gerald Kennedy believed that Bob Rae incarnates an older generation of politicians not having proposed anything concrete in this race. By seeing Mr. Dryden joining there, Gerald Kennedy feared that the momentum would go there.
The switching of Kennedy to Dion's side resulted in pretty much his whole delegates going with him. Rae did not even get 5% of Kennedy's delegates.
You can read the rest of the article here
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