Brad Trivers to seek P.E.I. PC leadership

P.E.I. Progressive Conservative MLA Brad Trivers has confirmed to CBC News he will formally announce his candidacy for the party leadership on Friday.

Trivers, the MLA for Rustico-Emerald, has scheduled an event for Friday evening in Hunter River where he's set to make a "much-anticipated announcement with regards to his political future," according to a posting on his Facebook page.

The Progressive Conservatives have been without a leader since Rob Lantz stepped down in the fall of 2015 after failing to win a seat in the provincial election earlier that year.

From Perth to P.E.I.

Trivers first entered politics in 2011, with a failed effort to win the Rustico-Emerald seat. He returned and won it in 2015.

Trivers is a native of Perth, Ont., and moved to P.E.I. in 2004 after marrying native Islander Karen Turner. He works as an information systems analyst with his own company, SunriseWeb.ca.

Only one candidate has declared for the leadership so far, retired Summerside businessman Alan Mulholland.

The leadership convention is scheduled for Oct. 20.

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