本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛Liberal officials are denying reports that federal Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion is planning to step down as early as Thursday.
The Toronto Star had cited Liberal party insiders who said Dion would make the announcement on Thursday then stay on as leader until a successor is chosen.
But a spokeswoman for Dion said the Liberal leader will make no such announcement on Thursday and that her office will inform the media when Dion is ready to speak.
She added he won't speak to the media on Thursday.
Dion avoided the subject of his future as party leader in the immediate aftermath of Tuesday's federal election, in which his party lost 19 seats and received only 26 per cent of the popular support.
The Globe and Mail, meanwhile, citing senior Liberal party members, reported Thursday that Dion would face pressure to declare quickly that he will end his leadership and let the party start procedures to replace him.
The paper quoted one well-connected party member as suggesting that if Dion didn't announce his departure promptly, the party should move the furniture out of his office.
"How do you do a putsch on a guy who doesn't understand he's being putsched?" the Globe quoted the unidentified Liberal as saying.
After Tuesday's election results, political consultant David Herle, who chaired the two previous Liberal campaigns, said the party will hold Dion responsible for what he described as a "crushingly bad defeat."
"We are now again, virtually irrelevant in Western Canada and have lost the beachhead we had in British Columbia. The problems in Quebec remain widespread and deep. The NDP and Greens are encroaching on the Liberal party's territory from the left."更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
The Toronto Star had cited Liberal party insiders who said Dion would make the announcement on Thursday then stay on as leader until a successor is chosen.
But a spokeswoman for Dion said the Liberal leader will make no such announcement on Thursday and that her office will inform the media when Dion is ready to speak.
She added he won't speak to the media on Thursday.
Dion avoided the subject of his future as party leader in the immediate aftermath of Tuesday's federal election, in which his party lost 19 seats and received only 26 per cent of the popular support.
The Globe and Mail, meanwhile, citing senior Liberal party members, reported Thursday that Dion would face pressure to declare quickly that he will end his leadership and let the party start procedures to replace him.
The paper quoted one well-connected party member as suggesting that if Dion didn't announce his departure promptly, the party should move the furniture out of his office.
"How do you do a putsch on a guy who doesn't understand he's being putsched?" the Globe quoted the unidentified Liberal as saying.
After Tuesday's election results, political consultant David Herle, who chaired the two previous Liberal campaigns, said the party will hold Dion responsible for what he described as a "crushingly bad defeat."
"We are now again, virtually irrelevant in Western Canada and have lost the beachhead we had in British Columbia. The problems in Quebec remain widespread and deep. The NDP and Greens are encroaching on the Liberal party's territory from the left."更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net