Halifax / Nov 10, 2011 – Former NDP leader Alexa McDonough today announced her support for MP Peggy Nash for the leadership of the federal New Democrats.

“I am convinced Peggy is the candidate who can lead a united NDP,” said McDonough.  “She has the skills and experience to take on Stephen Harper’s failing economic policies and she has the activist roots to continue building our party, here in Atlantic Canada, in Quebec and right across the country.”

McDonough served as the leader of the federal NDP from 1995 to 2003 and leader of Nova Scotia’s New Democrats from 1980 to 1994.

McDonough is the second prominent New Democrat from the Atlantic region to support Nash since she announced her leadership bid less than two weeks ago. Newfoundland & Labrador NDP leader Lorraine Michael has also endorsed Nash.

Nash thanked McDonough for her support.  “Alexa has been a driving force in building our movement, here in Nova Scotia, throughout Atlantic Canada and across the country. Our party’s recent breakthroughs in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland & Labrador were built on the foundations she help lay over the past thirty years. I’m thrilled to have her as part of my team.”

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