Unprecedented virtual campaigning for Conservative leadership will mean end of candidacy for some
'The party is faced with a situation where they can decide to be flexible, or they can be inflexible,' says then-leadership candidate Rick Peterson, who had asked the party to extend the candidates' March 25 deadline to April 17 because of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Some candidates for the Conservative Party leadership will be knocked out of the contest by the COVID-19 pandemic, unable to get the required 3,000 signatures and $300,000 by the March 25 deadline after being forced to campaign solely in virtual settings, said some of the contestants.
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