{"id":422587,"date":"2026-01-21T01:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/422587\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:35:11","slug":"first-citizen-recall-petition-against-alberta-legislature-member-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/422587\/","title":{"rendered":"First citizen recall petition against Alberta legislature member fails"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The first of more than two dozen recall petitions launched against members of Alberta’s legislature has come up short.<\/p>\n

Jenny Yeremiy submitted her petition against Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides to Elections Alberta on Tuesday, but said she needed thousands more signatures.<\/p>\n

She says the campaign collected about 6,500 signatures, well short of its required 16,006.<\/p>\n

The petition was launched in October and, if successful, would have forced a constituency-wide vote on whether Nicolaides should lose his seat in the legislature.<\/p>\n

\"AlbertaThe petition to recall Alberta Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides launched in October, but has come up thousands of signatures short. (Jeff McIntosh\/The Canadian Press)<\/p>\n

Yeremiy says she thinks the petition should still be considered a success, because it helped get people organized ahead of the next provincial election set for October 2027.<\/p>\n

“We want to put on the record that there are 6,500-plus of us that are angry with the way [Nicolaides] is abusing his rights,” she told reporters outside the Elections Alberta office in Edmonton.<\/p>\n

“I can tell you we have a lot more ideas now that this is done and a lot of more time on our hands to do them.”<\/p>\n

The petition was the first of 26 launched against members of the legislature in the final months of 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-422587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}