Beleaguered BC United leader hosting town hall in Kelowna

BC United’s leader will be in Kelowna next week for a town hall meeting. Leader of the official opposition Kevin Falcon promises a town hall-style question and answer period following his opening remarks. The recent rise of the Conservative Party of BC is proving to be a challenge for BC United as a provincial election looms in October. Recent polling shows the governing New Democrats the favourite to win the 2024 general election with the BC Conservatives in a comfortable second place position ahead of BC United and the BC Greens. All the ridings in Kelowna and area are currently held by BC United MLAs. Kelowna-Mission MLA Rene Merrifield recently announced she won’t be running https://infotel.ca/newsitem/breaking-kelowna-mla-renee-merrifield-not-returning-for-bc-united-party/it104777 in the upcoming election and the party has chosen Yeti Farm Creative founder Ashley Ramsay https://infotel.ca/newsitem/bc-united-selects-candidate-to-replace-kelowna-mission-incumbent-whos-quitting-politics/it104975 to run in her stead in the riding of Kelowna-Mission. After 14 years as MLA for Kelowna-Lake Country, Norm Letnick announced https://infotel.ca/newsitem/kelowna-lake-country-mla-norm-letnick-not-running-for-re-election/it98029 he will not run for re-election. The party has selected Pavneet Singh to run in the riding of Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream. Stephen Johnson will be the candidate in the riding of West Kelowna-Peachland after Ben Stewart stepped aside. Dr. Michael Humer is the party’s candidate in Kelowna-Centre. Falcon's town hall meeting will be held on Wednesday, July 31 at the Coast Capri Hotel in Kelowna. The BC election will be held on or before Oct. 19. To contact a reporter for this story, email Howard Alexander mailto:halexander@infonews.ca  or call 250-309-5343 or email the editor mailto:news@infonews.ca . You can also submit photos, videos or news tips to the newsroom mailto:tip@infonews.ca  and be entered to win a monthly prize draw. We welcome your comments and opinions on our stories but play nice. We won't censor or delete comments unless they contain off-topic statements or links, unnecessary vulgarity, false facts, spam or obviously fake profiles. If you have any concerns about what you see in comments, email the editor in the link above. SUBSCRIBE to our awesome newsletter here https://infotel.ca/newsletter .