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Alberta Party Leader Stephen Mandel is calling this provincial election “one of the nastiest campaigns” in Alberta history after he was informed of a robocall impersonating him to endorse Jason Kenney.

“I’ve just had enough of it,” Mandel told media Sunday morning outside the Federal Building. “Where is the morality in politics? It’s getting so despicable.

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“We just want this stuff to stop. There’s two days left in the campaign. Maybe for two days people can be civil.”

Mandel is calling on the RCMP and the province’s election commissioner to investigate an allegation of fraudulent election activity stemming from a robocall impersonating Mandel that an Ardrossan resident received.

Bob Wispinski said he answered the local call on his home line around 5:50 p.m. Saturday.

“It started saying ‘Hi, this is Stephen Mandel of the Alberta Party … if you believe in Alberta, Jason Kenney has all the answers,'” said Wispinski of the minute and a half robocall. “At the end of it, it said ‘I’m Stephen Mandel and I support Jason Kenney of the UCP.”

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Wispinski said he was shocked by the call and the impersonator “did a good job” sounding like Mandel. He said he immediately called the number that showed up on the caller ID and reached a man who had no idea what he was talking about it.

“I’m not impressed. I don’t know how to word it. It pisses me off,” Wispinski said of the act.

Wispinski lives in the riding of Strathcona-Sherwood Park where Dave Quest is the Alberta Party candidate.

Having just learned of the alleged call, Mandel said the party is unaware if this is an isolated case in Quest’s riding or how many residents have received this call. The party doesn’t have a recording of what was said.

“We want to be very clear. We don’t know the source of this. We don’t know who it came from. We just think it’s a new all-time low and whoever it is needs to be found out,” Mandel said.

The UCP had no prior knowledge of the alleged robocall and condemns the action, the party said in an email Sunday afternoon.

“All our calls clearly identify as coming from the UCP as per Elections Alberta and/or CRTC requirements,” the email reads. “It is disappointing that some in this election are more interested in fear and smear tactics.”