The Green Party says that the candidates in some heads did not lead to the candidates, although the party presented a complete list of possible candidates for the commission responsible for organizing leadership debates.
The party is not executing nominated in more than 100 cables, and said the co-leader of the Green Party, Jonathan Pedneault Canada Radio Last week, some of this was deliberate. He said his party made a “strategic decision” not to lead the candidates in the currents where they think that conservatives would probably win.
Pedneault told CBC News on Tuesday that the game withdraw approximately 15 candidates for that reason.
One of the criteria that will appear in the debates of this week’s leaders is that a party supports candidates in 90 percent of the heads. The fall of 15 candidates would still maintain the greens above the threshold of 90 percent established by the debate commission.
“We could clearly know about the field that [the] The local population, the progressives, did not want a green candidate to run there, “Pedneault said about the 15 cables where the party left the candidates.
But that leaves 96 currents where the greens are not represented after accounting for the 15 retired candidates.
Pedneault told CBC News that some candidates and volunteers “faced the intimidation” of the constituents, which contributed to the scarcity of party candidates.
“They called us people, they told them that they shouldn’t be running,” Pedneault said.
The candidates faced problems with electoral workers, says the party
The deadline for the presentation of Canada’s elections was on April 7, but the matches had to present their list of candidates for the Federal Debates Commission a week earlier.
Rod Leggett, a party spokesman, told CBC News that some nominees had problems with the local Canadian employees known as officials who return.
“Canada’s elections is a first level electoral management agency, recognized worldwide. But at the local level, the Green Party has experienced higher levels of problems than in the past,” Leggett said in an email.
The Canada Elections Law requires that a candidate gathers 100 voter signatures in their driving to register. Leggett said that green candidates had trouble verifying nomination firms because some officers returning did not have an updated list of voters.
Pedneault did not come into details about the problems that the candidates faced with the officers who return, but said that some of their decisions to reject firms were “quite questionable.”
The co-leader of the Green Party, Jonathan Pedneault, speaking in Montreal on the 23rd of the electoral campaign, explains why the Green Party and all other parties should be welcome in the next federal electoral debates.
Canada’s elections said the Green Party has been in contact with concerns about the nomination process and is investigating the matter. But a Canadian election spokesman said that the list of candidates is now “final” and that the suggested deadlines could have been a problem.
“While it is unfortunate that some candidates could not comply with the provisions of the law to become a candidate, we strongly encourage candidates to present early and involve their local return charge,” said the spokesman in an email.
“The officers who return work with possible candidates to ensure that their nominations are complete, but the problems identified near the closure of the nominations provide limited time to correct them.”
The other important parties have representation in almost all the lots.
With the candidates who run in 232 of the 343 federal constructions, Pedneault is still ready to participate in this week’s leadership debates.
The leadership commission, which has the task of organizing the French and English debates, has defended its decision to invite the greens before the nomination deadline, saying that I needed time to organize the debates.
Pedneault told journalists on Monday that it should be included in the debates despite the fact that his party has a smaller list of candidates.
“I think it simply benefits Canadian democracy to have the greens on the table and have so many voices to discuss the future of our country,” he said during a press conference.
