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One month into building a new political party and MLA Derek Fildebrandt is discovering it’s not as easy at it looks.

Not that constructing a party has ever looked easy. Except perhaps to Fildebrandt who announced last month he was interim leader of the Freedom Conservative Party.

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I’m not sure if he expected thankful voters to stampede to his door, hoist him up in their thankful arms and parade him around the town square.

Or maybe he at least expected some press coverage that didn’t in some way mock his checkered political past.

He got neither.

“We’re a few hundred (members) at this point,” said Fildebrandt in an interview Monday. “A lot of what we’re doing is setting up the machinery of a party which I’m finding out quickly is no easy task. In politics I’ve been involved in campaigning and policy but I’ve not had as much to do with the nuts and bolts construction of a party from the ground up, so we’ve quickly found out that it’s easier said than done.”