CHQR Newsroom
11/7/2009
Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the hotel in Red Deer Saturday afternoon where Progressive Conservative delegates were voting on Premier Ed Stelmach's leadership.
The protest, organized by the group Friends of Medicare, was aimed at hospital bed closures and other government cuts to health care.
Most of the roughly 700 protesters are union members from across Alberta and many carried banners and placards denouncing the Tory government.
Inside the hotel, 1,300 Tories were eating lunch and listening to the premier answer questions.
Stelmach faces a mandatory leadership review vote the Tories hold after every general election and the results will be announced this evening.
Although some Tory veterans have been calling for a change in leadership, Stelmach is expected get a fairly strong endorsement from the delegates.
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