The BC United Party has its candidate to replace Coquitlam–Maillardville MLA Selina Robinson, who is retiring from politics this fall.
Today, May 2, the party named Coquitlam resident Brandon Fonseca as its contender for the Oct. 19, 2024, provincial election to face the BC Conservatives’ Hamed Najafi.
Neither the BC NDP, the party that Robinson belonged to before resigning in February to sit as an independent, nor the BC Greens have announced their candidates for the upcoming race.
According the BC United website, Fonseca is a graduate student at Simon Fraser University (SFU), studying molecular biology and biochemistry.
He also ran for the BC Conservatives in Port Moody–Coquitlam in 2020 and served as the party’s vice president from 2021–22; however, he left BC Conservatives last year.
"The BC Conservatives have demonstrated themselves to be a party lacking in seriousness, who flirt with far-right conspiracy theories, while attempting to masquerade as a provincial Conservative Party associated with Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives, which is not the case,” he stated in his biography.
If elected, Fonseca vows to use his scientific background to fight for better health care, as well as advocating for lower gas and grocery bills and addressing street crime.
Other provincial candidates in the Tri-Cities who have declared include:
BC United
- Keenan Adams (Port Coquitlam)
BC Conservatives
- Stephen Frolek (Coquitlam–Burke Mountain)
- Kerry Van Aswegen (Port Moody–Burquitlam)
- Ndellie Massey (New West–Coquitlam)
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