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Voters vaulted NDP Leader Rachel Notley into power after being impressed by her campaign.

Up next, she’ll need to give them a solid first impression of how Premier Rachel Notley will act, as she builds the first Alberta NDP government’s front benches.

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She must choose a cabinet from a 53-member caucus thick with rookies and with more prominent public-sector and union veterans than figures from the business world.

But, she believes there’s plenty of talent there.

“I was going over it today, and I have far too many people who are skilled to select from, quite honestly, and I’m so proud that they reflect the diversity of this province,” the premier-elect said in a press conference Wednesday.

A scan of the NDP team’s biographies suggests Notley can afford to keep the undergraduate students and so-called “paper candidates” on her backbenches, to get more seasoning before they’re ever appointed to oversee entire government departments.