To speed up the process, new electoral rules have been agreed, such as requiring the support of 20 Tory MPs to run a candidacy, or its elimination if it doesn’t get 30 votes in the first ballot. The first votes will take place on Wednesday and Thursday.
The British Conservative Party will announce its new leader and future prime minister on September 5, in its first parliamentary session after the summer recess, after internal elections are held to choose the replacement for Boris Johnson, who announced his resignation on September 7, but he is still acting head of government.
To hasten the primaries to remove him from power, the so-called 1922 committee, which unites the Conservative parliamentary group, today agreed to new election rulesafter renewal of its own executive branch.
The committee, chaired by Graham Brady, has decided that candidates to succeed Johnson support at least 20 deputies “tories“, of the 8 needed so far, with the aim of reducing the number of applicants.
The Conservative Executive also determined that: they are knocked out in the first round of the vote, the next day 13, candidates who do not get at least 30 votess of the 358 Conservative MPs in the House of Commons.
The 1922 Committee plans to hold two knockout rounds this week — Wednesday and Thursday — and more next week if necessary. The aim is to have two finalists for the parliamentary summer recess, which begins July 21, Brady said.
The two candidates with the most votes from the deputies would then submit to a postal election among those affiliated with the ruling party – some 200,000, according to data from 2021 – after an election campaign in August, the head of the “Tories” parliamentarians.
This means that barely 0.30% of the UK’s 67.2 million people will elect their future prime minister unless the winner calls early general elections in the coming months, as Labor is already calling for. They are currently scheduled for 2024.
According to the count support among Conservative MPsthe race to lead the conservative party would be led Rishi Sunakof 38 supports, while Penny Mordaunt would have 22. Third place would go to Tom Tugendhatwhich is supported by 19 deputies, as they follow Liz Truss (fifteen), Nadhim Zahawi (14), Jeremy Hunting(13), kemi Badenoch(13), His hair Braveman (11), Sajid Javid (10), Priti Patel (9), Grant Shapps (8) and Rehman Chisthi close the list, without support.
A poll of militants would see Penny Mordaunt as the favorite, with 20 percent support, followed by Kemi Badenoch (19 percent), Rishi Sunak (12), Suella Braveman (10) and Liz Truss (10). In any case, the militants have no agency until the last round.
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