Former Toronto city councillor Doug Ford says he's joining the race to succeed Patrick Brown as the leader of Ontario's Progressive Conservatives.
Brown resigned last week, just hours after two women accused him of sexual misconduct allegations he emphatically called false.
Ford is the brother of notorious former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, who died in 2016.
Doug Ford says he intends on running a positive campaign and will give a voice to hardworking people in the province.
Meantime, Ontario's Progressive Conservatives have appointed a new president after the abrupt resignation of former party chief Rick Dykstra.
Jag Badwal, a long time PC party activist, has been named party president after Dykstra resigned Sunday night, hours before Maclean's magazine reported allegations of sexual assault against him related to a 2014 incident.
The allegations have not been verified by The Canadian Press.
Badwal announced via social media that he had assumed the post.
He did not mention the turmoil that brought him to the job, focusing instead on the coming spring election.
Before Dykstra's resignation, Badwal served as the party's first-vice president, one of the top jobs on the party's executive.
Dykstra has not responded to requests for comment on the allegations reported by Maclean's.
The magazine reported he was accused of sexually assaulting a young Conservative staffer in 2014, when he was an MP.