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“I think the message from where I come from is almost 60 per cent of those who cast ballots that have been counted, with many more to come, said I don’t believe that you’re working for me, I think you are working for your donors, I think you are more focused on fundraising than you are on governing. That was the message I heard, and I understand Ms. Clark didn’t hear that message.”

Both the Liberals and NDP are courting the Greens for support, because neither has the 44 seats required for a majority government without picking up the votes of three Green MLAs. The preliminary results from the May 9 election gave the Liberals 43 seats, the NDP 41, and the Greens three.

Final counts, including the tallying of 179,380 absentee ballots, won’t occur until May 22-24. If Clark wins one additional riding (such as Courtenay-Comox, which the NDP hold by nine votes) she would then have 44 seats and the slimmest possible majority government.

Clark said the public voted to demand politicians work across party lines.

“They sent us a message and they said in this election they want us to remember the things that are important to them, and not get held up in party politics and partisan fighting, they want us to see past that, they want us to see past politicians and they want us to see them,” said Clark.

“That is the lesson in this election.”

Weaver listed his demands in recent days, which include official party status and the ban of corporate and union donations to political parties. He also named his negotiating team Tuesday, which includes his chief of staff, Liz Lilly, as well as Norman Spector, a former chief of staff to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and former deputy minister to B.C. Social Credit Premier Bill Bennett in the 1980s.