Conservatives to finalize nomination rules for incumbent MPs before leadership election to avoid political pressure to support any one leadership candidate, say Tories

Nomination rules before the leadership election will allow MPs to decide who to support for the party’s top job without any pressure, says Saskatchewan Conservative MP Randy Hoback.

Interim Conservative Leader Candice Bergen, pictured Feb. 2, 2022, on the Hill. The national council of the Conservative Party has been deliberating on what the nomination rules should be since November, says party president Robert Batherson.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ABBAS RANA

March 14, 2022

The Conservative Party’s national council will finalize the nomination rules for 119 ridings represented by its MPs before the election of the new leader and unheld ridings after the leadership election, giving independence to MPs to decide without any political pressure who they want to support f...

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