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Alberta Party Leader Stephen Mandel is eligible to run in the upcoming Alberta provincial election.

Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Gaylene Kendell ruled Mandel acted in good faith when he missed the deadline to file his campaign expense paperwork.

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In a written decision filed Monday, Justice Kendell said all of the mitigating factors surrounding the case were sufficient for the appeal to be granted when considered together and weighed against the penalty Mandel faced.

Mandel had been facing a five-year ban from running in provincial elections if his appeal had not been granted.

Mandel, a former Edmonton mayor and Progressive Conservative health minister, said he felt vindicated by the court ruling.

“The judicial system worked and we’re now going to be knocking on doors and going around the province,” said Mandel.

The ban spurred from Mandel failing to file his Edmonton-McClung nomination campaign expenses within the four-month window outlined in legislation that the NDP brought into effect in 2016.