Petition wants ex-grit nixed

As Kevin Vuong — the ousted Liberal candidate for Spadina—fort York — continued his healthy lead in the still-ongoing tabulation of Monday’s election results, one political commentator launched a petition urging him to step aside.

Mark Slapinski told the Toronto Sun that he launched the petition Tuesday in response to Vuong’s unofficial win in the riding, despite being disallowed by the Liberal party over a dropped 2019 sexual assault charge.

“The

Liberals didn’t vet him properly,

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Canada didn’t take his name off the ballot and the media was reporting on him as a Liberal candidate during the election,”

Slapinski said.

“I think this was a failure of democracy and hope this petition will bring attention to this mixup.”

The petition had garnered more than 730 signatures by Tuesday evening.

With all but one of the riding’s 129 polls reporting results as of early Tuesday evening, Vuong was ahead of

NDP candidate Norm Di Pasquale by 1,320 votes, enough for many to unofficially declare his victory.