The selection next month in the battle of Alberta River-Cowot will break the record of most candidates in a federal vote in Canadian history.
Until Friday, 108 candidates, mainly associated with a group of defenders of the electoral reform known as the longest voting committee, have been registered to run for the seat.
The Byle selection was called after his recently re -elected parliamentarian, Damien Kurek, resigned to allow the conservative leader Pierre Poilievre to run for a new seat in the House of the Commons. Pailievre lost to his old Carleton trip in April.
The longest voting committee has been organizing dozens of candidates to run in the elections in recent years, which resulted in the one -meter tickets that have caused delays in the vote counting and confused some voters.
The group wants to put an assembly of citizens in charge of the electoral reform and says that the political parties are too reluctant to make the most representative government of the electorate.
The previous record of 91 candidates occurred twice in the last year: during a partial election in Lasalle-Emard-Verdun last September and Carleton during the general elections of the past spring.
The longest voting committee says it aims to register 200 candidates at Battle River-Crowoot. The deadline to register as a candidate is July 28.
Protests draw anger from other candidates
Pailievre and other candidates who are not associated with the longest voting committee have criticized the protest.
Pailievre He said during a City Hall meeting in driving last week that I wanted the electoral rules to be changed to avoid longer voting protests.
“” We have to take action because this is a scam. It is unfair, it is unfair and must stop, “said Poilievre.
Although Canada’s elections apply the Canadian election law, Parliament is responsible for making changes.
The sources say that the conservative leader of CBC News, Pierre Poilievre, is adjusting his message and tone before the choice of next month, where he will try a return to the House of the Commons. The parties and politics of parties analyze whether these changes will be enough to ensure a seat, and Poilievre’s leadership, if Jenni Byrne remains his main advisor.
The longest voting committee rebuked Poilievre’s suggestion, arguing that he emphasized his point that politicians are responsible for electoral laws.
“When it comes to the electoral law, politicians simply have too much skin in the game to call shots. There is a clear and inappropriate conflict of interests,” the group said in a statement earlier this week.
Bonnie Critchley, who runs as independent and is launching as an alternative to the conservative leader, who argues that he pushed Kurek, has also asked the longest voting committee to go back.
Power & Politics talks to the independent candidate Bonnie Critchley, who runs against conservative leader Pierre Poilievre in the next Alberta national team. Critchley says that if Pailievre wins: “It will not be much” and warns that some residents feel “used” for their attempt to recover a seat in the House of Commons.
In an open letter to the committee published on the website of his campaign, Critchley said there is a “reaction” in the conduction of voters who are worried that she is a “false” candidate.
“I don’t have a massive team, I don’t have a support of millions of people. I have to go door to door inside my community and explain to my neighbors that I have nothing to do with you,” he wrote.
Michael Harris, who runs for the Libertarian Party, described the protest as a “mockery of the democratic process.”
“This flood of joke candidates not only loses the time of voters. It actively hurts the independent serious candidates and third parties who are working hard to give this driving real alternatives,” Harris said in a statement.
The long voting candidate pushes criticism
Although this is the second time that the longest voting committee is being executed in a Poilievre on a mountain, they have also addressed liberal strengths. The conservatives turned the driving of Toronto-St. Paul’s during a partial election last summer that had dozens of candidates associated with the long protest of the electoral ballot. (The liberals won the seat in the general elections).
Jayson Cowan, a candidate affiliated with the longest voting committee, retreated the idea that the group is deteriorating the democratic process.
“It is not a fraud, it is not a trick. It is not even completely a protest because everyone has their own reasons [for being on the ballot]”Cowan told CBC News.
Cowan said that the electoral rules, specifically the requirement that a candidate has 100 signatures in their form of nomination, favor organized political parties.
Member of the Nation Metis of Alberta, Cowan has tried to run in elections in the past as independent. But he said he fought to obtain enough signatures for his form of nomination, partly due to mobility problems. He accredits the longest voting committee to help obtain his name on the ballot for the first time in the election next month.
“This is not a protest for me. It is the real business. And they are only offering a beautiful and fantastic democratic service,” he said.
Cowan said he wants to see more indigenous representation and more politicians in the disabled community. Although it does not live in driving, it is launching as a better option than Pailievre.
“Who wants an Ottawa politician? [in Battle River-Crowfoot]? Definitely ruined his [Carleton] Mount … and now you just want a free trip. I don’t approve that at all, “Cowan said.
“If they vote for me, I will serve.”
