• nesc@lemmy.cafe
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    1 day ago

    Lol, so you can have a number of fake members who get elected so you always get people that you like in parliament?

    • leftytighty@slrpnk.net
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      I think the actual mechanism is that a Conservative member in a safe riding (very unlikely to lose to another party) would step down, triggering a by-election, and the party leader would run as the new Conservative candidate.

      There’s a chance he would lose again