Roanoke Times Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc. DATE: MONDAY, June 14, 1993 TAG: 9306140255 SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-8 EDITION: METRO SOURCE: DATELINE: OTTAWA LENGTH: Short
No date has been set for the turnover of power, but party officials expect Mulroney to step down officially in about a week or 10 days. He resigned earlier in the year, faced with plummeting popularity.
Campbell was chosen as the party's leader and next prime minister on a second ballot at the Progressive Conservative Party's leadership convention, defeating Environment Minister Jean Charest by a vote of 1,817 to 1,630.
Yet her real electoral test will come in late summer or early fall, when she leads the Tories into a national election that will determine whether the party will garner its third-straight majority government.
- Associated Press