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DATE: MONDAY, June 14, 1993                   TAG: 9306140255
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-8   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: OTTAWA                                LENGTH: Short


CANADA GETS FIRST WOMAN PRIME MINISTER

Defense Minister Kim Campbell, a 46-year-old lawyer from Vancouver, on Sunday won a party race to succeed Brian Mulroney as prime minister. She will be first woman to hold the post.

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



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