Canada: The head of the Green Party of Canada, Annamie Paul, has announced that she is resigning after failing to win a seat in last week’s federal election and leading the party to disappointing overall results. in the country's House of Commons in the 44th parliamentary election on September 20.

In the election, the Green Party won two seats of the House of Commons and suffered a significant drop in its share of the popular vote. The party placed sixth in the overall percentage of the vote, dropping to 2.3 per cent from the 6.5 per cent secured in 2019. Under the party's regulations, Paul did not become Prime Minister, she would have to face a leadership review within six months. Voting in that process was set to begin on October 26.

She also was the single federal party leader who did not hold a seat in Parliament heading into the September 20 election, in which she was trying to get elected in Canada’s smallest and most densely populated constituency, Toronto Centre. But the 48-year-old, who failed to win a by-election in that riding in late October 2020, ultimately finished fourth with only 8.5 percent support in last week’s vote.

Paul became the party leader in October 2020, making history as the first Jewish woman and first Black woman to be elected leader of a major political party in Canada.In 2021 just 398,775 Canadians voted for the Green Party, in contrast to the 1,189,631 votes secured in 2019.

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