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The Calgary mayoral race now has a communist candidate on the ballot.

In a statement Friday, Katherine LeRougetel announced her candidacy for the mayor’s office and said she will be running as a member of the Communist League.

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“The ruling rich and their governments — including the one in city hall — have only one solution to the capitalist economic crisis,” LeRougetel said in the statement. “Speed up on the job, part-time hours, the carbon tax; make workers and farmers pay for the bosses’ ‘recovery.'”

LeRougetel said she is a supporter of the Cuban socialist revolution and in February she visited Cuba for the Havana International Book Fair.

“Working people in Cuba show what is possible,” LeRougetel said in the statement. “We need our own workers party to organize a mass revolutionary struggle to take political power out of the hands of the capitalists.”

In the statement, LeRougetel is described as a 59-year-old unionized warehouse worker and a defender of women’s right to choose abortion.

LeRougetel ran in the 2015 Alberta General Election for the Communist League in the riding of Calgary-Cross, losing out to Alberta NDP candidate Ricardo Miranda.