Scott Moe is the successor to Brad Wall at the head of the Saskatchewan Patry and becomes prime minister-designate

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Brad Wall and Scott Moe.

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Saturday, 27-jan-2018 22:33

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SASKATOON | The former minister of saskatchewan Scott Moe has won the race for the leadership of the Saskatchewan Party, Saturday, thus becoming the successor of the resigning prime minister Brad Wall.

Mr. Moe has been elected after five rounds of voting, with 8075 votes, or 53,87 %, against 6914 voice (46,13 %) for Alanna Koch, a high-level official (the deputy minister of the prime minister), the last of the candidates with him to make it to the final round.

Scott Moe was elected to the legislative assembly of Saskatchewan in 2011, and then re-elected in 2016.

During his career in provincial politics, he was notably minister of Environment and minister of higher Education.

Scott Moe grew up on a farm in the area of Shellbrook, about 150 km north of Saskatoon, and studied agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan.

He will thus lead his party who had obtained 62.4 per cent of the vote in the general elections of 2016, winning 51 of the 61 seats of the legislative assembly and the province – when he will be sworn – in the wake of the departure of Brad Wall. The latter had announced that he was leaving his post in August of last year, when his government was the subject of a grumbling popular after introducing an austerity budget.