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Three online petitions want a newly elected NDP MLA to be removed from office, saying some of her Facebook photos show that she is unfit for office.

Deborah Drever was elected Tuesday in the provincial riding of Calgary Bow.

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Three Facebook photos of Drever, a 27-year-old sociology student at Mount Royal University, are what the petitions are upset about.

One shows Drever in front of a T-shirt with a marijuana leaf on it, another is of a hand giving the middle finger in front of a Canadian flag, and the other is her in a one-piece bathing suit.

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Drever said in a statement that she wouldn’t “let these partisan smears distract from my focus on the things that matter to people in Calgary Bow, including needed investments in education and health care.”

Premier-designate Rachel Notley says she doesn’t see Drever’s Facebook photos as a big problem for the NDP.