(Ottawa) The group which added dozens of candidates to the ballot in the constituency of the conservative chief Pierre Hairyvre during the recent federal elections plans to do the same during the next by -election.
Posted at 5.15 p.m.
Sarah Ritchie
Canadian press
Mr. Poilievre should run for a headquarters in the House of Commons in the Alberta River – Crowfoot Albertae district, after losing his longtime siege in Carleton for the benefit of the Liberals on April 28.
Damien Kurek, re -elected in Battle River – Crowfoot for the third time last week, is committed to withdraw so that Mr. Hairyvre can arise in his place.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said last week that he would quickly trigger the by -election in order to give the conservative leader to return to the House of Commons.
The “longest ballot committee” made sure to add 85 of the 91 names on Carleton’s ballot, but none of them obtained more than 57 votes.
The group says it is trying to draw attention to put pressure on an electoral reform and presented dozens of candidates during multiple by -elections in Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba since 2022.
“It would be advantageous for voters that politicians challenge themselves and entrust the decisions relating to electoral rules to a permanent, independent and non -partisan organization, as a citizen assembly,” said the group in an email.
The email specified that if at least 200 people registered before May 12, the committee would try to organize a long bulletin.
Elections Canada had to start the counting of anticipation votes at Carleton six hours before the polling stations are closed on April 28, and the full count was only finished the day after the election.
Voting ballots, which had to be specially printed, measured almost a meter long and were difficult to fold and insert into the ballot boxes for voters.
Mr. Poilievre lost against the Liberal Bruce Fanjoy by 4315 votes.
This defeat means that the whole spring session of the House of Commons will probably miss, which is to start on May 26.
A bypass election can be triggered from 11 days after the resignation of Damien Kurek – which can only occur after his official assertion as a deputy – and the partial election campaign will last between 36 and 50 days.
Mr. Kurek, elected for the first time in 2019, won the victory in Battle River – Crowfoot with more than 82 % of the votes in the last elections.
Pierre Poilievre recently went to the constituency and published on Monday on the social media that he had visited Mr. Kurek’s farm.
“The people of these communities feed and feed our country,” he said. It will be an honor to work to obtain their support in order to return to Parliament, to request accounts from the government and to defend common sense values for Canada. »»
Mr. Poilievre has not spoken to the media since the election. The conservative caucus must meet in Ottawa on Tuesday morning.
