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A former Senator has announced his wish to return to politics with the Jersey Alliance party, and will be standing in St. Helier North.
Ted Vibert is aiming to take one of four Deputy roles available in the newly-created district which expands the former 3/4 electorate.
It spans Mont Cochon up to Fern Valley across to Mont à L'Abbé, and includes Springfield, Rouge Bouillon, Westmount Road and First Tower.
Mr Vibert was first elected to the States Assembly as a St. Helier Deputy in 1999, but resigned due to ill health in 2000. He was then re-elected as a Senator in 2003.
The former politician, who was previously involved in the now-dissolved Jersey Democratic Alliance party, said he felt party politics was the right way forward. He said that, in his previous political career, it was “disheartening and frustrating” trying to get policies changed alone.
"The attraction of a political party is that by being part of a team where policies can be debated and decided on, then put to the electorate at an election and if enough candidates from the party are elected, those policies can be enacted. This is how all modern democracies work so we are not inventing the wheel or trying something new."
He said he had chosen the Alliance party, as "I have studied the policies they have so far released and agree with most of them."
He also said that, having met him for "long talks", he was convinced party leader Sir Mark Boleat was "just the man to lead Jersey through what will be a difficult period when we will be trying to recover from the pandemic, dealing with the loss of a section of our tourist industry, our labour difficulties, the high cost of housing and the rising cost of living due to outside influences and the overall damage inflicted on our once healthy economy."
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