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SASKATOON — One of the country’s most consistently popular premiers will be replaced this weekend and observers say it will be a struggle for the successful candidate to fill the former boss’s shoes.

Members of the governing Saskatchewan Party will pick a leader Saturday from a quartet of Brad Wall’s former cabinet ministers and one senior civil servant.

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None can match Wall’s political charisma and few, if any, would be recognized outside the province. The winner will get the keys to a government that finds itself floundering after a decade of unbridled economic and electoral success.

“They are going to be measured. How do they compare to his leadership? And they are all going to come up wanting,” says Ken Rasmussen, a professor in the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Regina.

“None of them have his skills as a politician and none of them have the other advantage that he had, which is great economic circumstances.”