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Political parties are courting MLA Richard Starke, who has held out as the last sitting Progressive Conservative member of the Alberta legislature.

Starke said Thursday he hasn’t decided whether he’ll be running in the next election, nor has he decided what banner he would run under.

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He said he won’t run for the United Conservative Party, which he refused to join last year after the unification vote between the PCs and Wildrose members. He has called the UCP a “Franken-party.”

“The new party is further to the right than either the Progressive Conservative or the Wildrose parties,” Starke said.

“There certainly are a number of people that joined who have very specific views on issues that I don’t know are mainstream Alberta views.”

It leaves many Albertans looking for a home, he said.

“I talk to people that lament that virtually every day,” he said. “They’re not enamoured with the current government … but they have real reservations about the UCP.”