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A longtime former Manitoba NDP cabinet minister is being barred from running for the party in the coming election, according to one of his supporters.Steve Ashton held the Thompson seat for 35 years before losing to a Progressive Conservative in 2016.
Blair Hudson, a Thompson representative on the NDP’s provincial council, says Ashton submitted a nomination bid for the upcoming election, but was rejected by the party’s candidate selection committee.
Hudson says Ashton has an appeal hearing tomorrow before the party’s executive.
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