The presidents of five Metro Vancouver B.C. Conservative party riding associations have called on leader John Rustad to resign.

On Monday, the presidents of the Burnaby East, Burnaby North, Coquitlam-Burke Mountain, Coquitlam-Maillardville and New Westminster-Coquitlam riding associations released a letter stating “the success of our party depends on caucus acting with courage and conviction to initiate a leadership renewal. Only new leadership can put our party back on a winning path.”

Those five ridings are held by the B.C. NDP.

The letter states B.C. Conservative party membership numbers are falling, while fundraising is in decline. It claims Rustad’s popularity is down from when the party came from nowhere in last year’s provincial election to within three seats of forming governmen

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