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Derek Nepinak has won a second term

Author

Compiled by Debora Steel

Volume

32

Issue

6

Year

2014

Outspoken leader Derek Nepinak has won a second term
 as Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs on the first ballot of the election held at Swan Lake First Nation. Of the eligible voting nations, 48 cast ballots with 26 votes, or 50 per cent plus one, cast in support of Nipinak, whose contenders were Sagkeeng Chief Donavan Fontaine and the former chief of Black River, Sheldon Kent.