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Rookie politician, Indigenous rights activist and author Wab Kinew was elected leader of the Manitoba NDP Saturday, and vowed to rebuild the opposition party as he continues to face questions about his troubled past.
Party members elected Kinew, 35, over veteran cabinet minister Steve Ashton by almost a 3-1 margin — 728 to 253.
"It's a new day for the NDP and it's a new day for Manitoba," Kinew declared to cheers following the vote. "This is a tremendous honour."
"I will take this role tremendously seriously and conduct myself with the greatest honour, integrity and honesty."
Within minutes of Kinew's victory, the governing Progressive Conservatives had a web site up that highlighted Kinew's decade-old criminal convictions, charges of domestic violence that were stayed, and rap lyrics with offensive terms for women, gays and lesbians and others.
Kinew, who was first elected to the legislature last year, told reporters he is willing to address attack ads.
"We know this is coming and what I'll do is I'll turn to my family, make sure they're OK, check in with my team and then I'll get right back to working on behalf of the people of Manitoba and standing up for their values."
Kinew went into the vote facing controversy over domestic violence charges that were stayed by the Crown in 2004 and only recently revealed.
The complainant in that case, Tara Hart, went public this week and told The Canadian Press that Kinew "flung" her across a room in the apartment they shared, which caused her to suffer severe rug burns.
Kinew said he never hit or threw Hart.
Kinew has also been convicted of assaulting a taxi driver and impaired driving more than a decade ago — offences for which he recently received pardons.
"I am not the man I was," Kinew told delegates before the vote with his wife, Lisa Monkman, by his side.
"To my two sons ... be better than me. Be good men."
Kinew replaces former premier Greg Selinger, who stepped down after the party lost the 2016 election to the Progressive Conservatives and saw 17 years in power come to an end.
The NDP currently holds 13 of the 57 legislature seats.
