Resignation of Liz Truss: a maximum of three candidates can succeed her

The British Conservative Party has announced that the candidates will be chosen by MPs and possibly members by 28 October.

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Lhe battle to succeed Liz Truss has begun. A maximum of three Conservative MPs can be officially candidates to take over from the British Prime Minister, who resigned on Thursday 20 October. They will then be decided by the deputies, and possibly the members, under the rules presented Thursday by the Conservative Party. “Candidates must have at least 100 colleagues (out of 357 Conservative MPs, editor’s note) to sponsor them,” said Graham Brady, a majority official to the press.

These sponsorships must be collected by Monday 2 p.m. local time (3 p.m. in Paris). Then, the deputies will have to either agree on two names that the 170,000 members of the party will have to decide between by an online vote by Friday, October 28, or on a single name which would then enter Downing Street immediately. This process is much more selective than that following the resignation of Boris Johnson in July. Eight candidates were then able to present themselves to the deputies, who eliminated six of them, then the members had six weeks to vote and decide between the two finalists.