Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe will face a struggle to appease urban NDP\u002Dleaning voters without alienating rural SUP\u002Dleaning supporters.
balancing act
Eventually, he will have to decide whether to adopt a strategy that can win in urban Saskatchewan or one that can shore up rural support by addressing the concerns of the SUP. It’s all very deja vu for the Saskatchewan Party.the rural ridings in the province. Recognizing that the only place to grow was within urban Saskatchewan, then-leader Elwin Hermanson obsessed with how to moderate the party’s right-wing, rural image to appeal to urban voters.
Indeed, the premier warned SUP voters that they might not like what they get if they continue to split the right-wing vote.has been to consolidate the province’s conservative voters behind a single political party, the problem of the SUP may weigh more heavily on Scott Moe’s mind than the problem of the urban vote.
But with the NDP effectively shut out of rural Saskatchewan and the path to government still possible without winning seats in Regina or Saskatoon, the political calculus may be that the problems of Saskatchewan’s cities can continue to be given less attention by this government than those issues that might woo rural SUP voters back into the Saskatchewan Party camp.
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