{"id":441906,"date":"2025-12-12T07:35:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/441906\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T07:35:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:35:20","slug":"p-e-i-premier-rob-lantz-resigns-to-seek-leadership-of-progressive-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/441906\/","title":{"rendered":"P.E.I. Premier Rob Lantz resigns to seek leadership of Progressive Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/WD3AASO6LFHVPGQ37ZZCGYM5TA.JPG?auth=4d4aa1515383da5d629bb1e0e4f082a8b4db33705a9ad3c40dbbca8a4c07676e&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"figcap-text\">Rob Lantz is sworn in as Prince Edward Island&#8217;s 34th premier during a ceremony at Government House in Charlottetown in February.Darren Calabrese\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Rob Lantz has announced that he is resigning as premier of Prince Edward Island as he seeks to become the leader of the Progressive Conservatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Lantz had been interim leader of the party and was sworn in as premier in February after Dennis King stepped down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Lantz had served as education minister under King, who had been premier since 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Lantz had also previously said he wouldn\u2019t seek the party\u2019s permanent leadership. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">He says his decision to seek the job now wasn\u2019t a move he made lightly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">He says that after speaking to Islanders, it became clear the choice \u201chad to be made to ensure stability and strong leadership behind a united team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Rob Lantz is sworn in as Prince Edward Island&#8217;s 34th premier during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":441907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2148,2138,671,104,2132,692,2147,2131,2143,2144,2140,2133,2130,79,407,746,2142,2137,2159,2134,2135,454,2139,1165,728,2149,108,2154,2155,50,2157,2152,2156,2150,2153,2136,85,2146,80,2145,2151,1458,158,1164,2141,1154,107,2158],"class_list":{"0":"post-441906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-arts-news","10":"tag-bc","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breaking-news-video","13":"tag-british-columbia","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-canada-news","16":"tag-canada-sports","17":"tag-canada-sports-news","18":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","19":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","20":"tag-canadian-news","21":"tag-economy","22":"tag-education","23":"tag-environment","24":"tag-federal-government","25":"tag-foreign-news","26":"tag-globe-and-mail","27":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","28":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","29":"tag-government","30":"tag-life-news","31":"tag-lifestyle","32":"tag-local-news","33":"tag-manitoba","34":"tag-national-news","35":"tag-new-brunswick","36":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","37":"tag-news","38":"tag-northwest-territories","39":"tag-nova-scotia","40":"tag-nunavut","41":"tag-ontario","42":"tag-pei","43":"tag-photos","44":"tag-political-news","45":"tag-political-opinion","46":"tag-politics","47":"tag-politics-news","48":"tag-quebec","49":"tag-sports-news","50":"tag-technology","51":"tag-travel","52":"tag-trudeau","53":"tag-us-news","54":"tag-world-news","55":"tag-yukon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}