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A successful business owner and entrepreneur, Krysko has publicly aligned himself with the Green Party in his Kelowna-Lake Country riding before election day May 9.

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In particular, Krysko points to the Site C project in northeast B.C. as a personal turning point for him.

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So while being a poster-child for a high-tech development movement that Premier Christy Clark has positioned the Liberals as championing, Clark doesn香蕉视频直播檛 have Krysko香蕉视频直播檚 vote.

But the unknown factor in this provincial election will be how many others like Krysko the Green Party can sway from the traditional base of support for both the Liberals and NDP, and what impact that will have on the election results.

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The partisan right-left politics that have ruled over B.C. since the 1980s show some polling number signs of cracking.

In the last election, Green party leader Andrew Weaver was elected in Victoria香蕉视频直播檚 Oak Bay-Gordon Head riding, but the party didn香蕉视频直播檛 field candidates in every Okanagan-Thompson riding and those who did run never topped the nine per cent vote percentage.

This election, the party has 83 candidates nominated across B.C. including all the Okanagan-Thompson constituencies.

Bill Tieleman, a long-time participant and media pundit of B.C. politics, said the traditional problem with any third-party option in the province is maintaining support at the ballot box.

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He feels the Greens also lacks a unifying political message represented by those 83 candidates, who in some cases have migrated from other fringe parties in B.C. or have little experience in politics.

He cites the recent embarrassing revelation on a social media post of the Port Moody-Coquitlam Green Party candidate Don Barthel, who called himself 香蕉视频直播榡ust a paper candidate.香蕉视频直播�

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Polling numbers vary, but most tend to have the NDP in front right now, followed by the Liberals and the Greens, said Tieleman.

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While the traditional thought is the Greens will steal votes from the NDP, Tieleman said the Liberals have focused more attention their way of late, a realization that perhaps the Greens could steal votes from them as well in some Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island ridings.

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Krysko says policy debates aside, he believes he香蕉视频直播檚 not alone as someone who has grown disenchanted with the partisan politics of B.C.

He says there is an absence of genuine discussion about the future of the province香蕉视频直播檚 economy and prospective quality of life being passed on to future generations.

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