“No one wins the first round” in the race for leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC), according to the camps of Jean Charest and Patrick Brown.
Friday is the last day to sell membership cards to participate in the ballot that will identify Erin O’Toole’s successor. The winner will be announced on September 10th.
Jean Charest’s team estimates that by the end of the fiscal year, the party will have between 350,000 and 450,000 members. We sold at least a third of the cardsassured Laurence Tôth, press officer for Jean Charest.
We sold membership cards where it mattered, he continued, and we were convinced that no one would win the first round.
For its part, Patrick Brown’s team claims they have sold 150,000 new membership cards, on rides where Conservatives generally have a hard time getting throughsaid the candidate in a press release.
In the leader selection system CCP, each constituency is worth 100 points. A ride in Western Canada with 2,000 members has the same weight in the leader election as a ride in Quebec with 100 members.
Counties with less than 100 members receive only one point per member (30 members are worth 30 points).
We heard that Mr. Poilievre sold 70% of his cards to the West. It’s not going to win him over, Laurence Tôth said. The efficiency of the vote is counted in a 100 point system.
Pierre Poilievre’s camp claims part of it that sold many of membership cards without temporary figure promotion. Our resources assure us, however, that membership for Carleton would have taken 150,000 to 200,000 members.
We are confident and proud of our worksaid Senator Léo Housakos, from Pierre Poilievre’s group. We ask the party to quickly publicize the number of members as well as the number of new membership cards sold by each team. to avoid false bidding, he said.
The other candidates are Leslyn Lewis, Scott Aitchison and Roman Baber.
The CCP says that, despite the claims of various candidates, it is impossible to know the exact total number of party members before mid-July, as every card sold must be checked.
It will then be possible for team candidates to challenge the validity of cards signed by their opponents – a process that will take several more weeks.
Source: Radio-Canada