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By: Larry Kusch

Posted: 05/3/2014 10:56 PM | Comments:

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Provincial Liberal leader Rana Bokari called for a united front at the party's annual general meeting in Winnipeg Saturday. Photo Store

Rana Bokari says Manitoba Liberals must bury their differences and build a "truly progressive and fiscally responsible alternative" to the NDP and Progressive Conservatives.

In a speech to the partys annual general meeting Saturday evening, Bokari portrayed the Grits as the true centrists.

"It is commonly said that elections are won by gravitating to the centre and we have all seen that around election time as our opponents try to become Liberals," she told a banquet crowd of 200. "They try to occupy the centre. Well, my friends, we dont have to gravitate or try to occupy the centre. We are the centre."

But she said a party thats known for its internal bickering must stand united.

"We must set aside any internal politics that we Liberals are unfortunately so well-known for and instead push forward together because this is a party that is strongest not in spite of our differences but because of our diversity."

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MB Liberals must quash 'internal politics' to move forward, leader says