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A longtime Calgary MP is retiring from federal politics and will not run in the next election.

Calgary-Nose Hill MP Diane Ablonczy confirmed her retirement to the House of Commons on Thursday.

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Ablonczy, who has served as an MP since 1993, first announced she would be leaving politics in July 2013.

“We are in a period of transition,” she said in a statement at the time. “This is the appropriate time to announce that after serving 22 years, I will be leaving the political arena in 2015.”

The 66-year-old MP was one of the original members of the Reform Party of Canada, a party she represented in the House of Commons from 1993 to 2000.

Ablonczy was re-elected in 2000 as an Alliance Party member after the Reform party dissolved, and in 2002, she ran for the leadership. She came in third behind Stephen Harper and runner-up Stockwell Day.

Her duties in Parliament included positions as the minister of state of the Americas and consular affairs, minister of state for seniors and minister of state for small business and tourism.