The United Conservative Party has appointed 12 people to a committee to set the rules for choosing a new party leader.
The party also says it will stop accepting cash payments for affiliations after June 1 at 5pm to “ensure the integrity” of the voting process.
The winner of the next leadership race will replace Jason Kenney as Prime Minister and party leader. He announced his resignation earlier this month after gaining 51.4% in a party leadership review.
In a press release Friday night, the UCP says Labor lawyer David Price will head the leadership election committee.
The committee will determine the race procedures, including competition deadlines, registration requirements, determine how members will vote, and appoint a director of the call.
Existing rules say that leadership votes must use a ballot and each party member gets one vote.
Other voting members of the leadership election committee include:
- Electoral Association Presidents Casey DesChamp, Larry Spagnolo, Tim Heger, and Ron Young
- Former members of Parliament Devinder Shory and Rick Casson
- Former Whitecourt Mayor Maryann Chichak
- Ryan Becker, former president of the UCP
The non-voting members of the committee are UCP President Cynthia Moore, Chief Financial Officer Maxwell DeGroat and Vice President Joe Friesenhan.
Ahead of Kenney’s leadership review vote, his opponents raised concerns that six credit cards would be used to buy some 4,000 party members, prompting accusations of buying members in bulk. Elections Alberta has opened an investigation.
Last year, the legislature passed a law allowing party affiliations to be bought for others, among other election funding reforms.
The statutes of the UCP state that only one member, or a member of his immediate family, can pay his membership fee.
The RCMP is also continuing to investigate allegations of voting irregularities in the party’s leadership race in 2017.
Former Wildrose Party leader and media personality Danielle Smith and former Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche Wildrose Party and MLA leader Brian Jean have so far expressed interest in running for office. of the UCP.