Sources say there are serious concerns about the donations and finances of the Brown campaign and are currently in the spotlight of the Canadian Election Commission
{6. }OTTAWA – Patrick Brown has been disqualified from the Conservative leadership race. rice field. He is a "serious allegation of misconduct" that appears to violate Canadian election law.
In a statement released late Tuesday, Ian Brodie, chairman of the Conservative Leadership Election Organizing Committee (LEOC), said the organizers were "in the last few weeks." Said he noticed a new private claim.
A source close to LEOC told the National Post that there were serious concerns about the donations and finances of the Braun campaign, which is currently in the spotlight of the Canadian Election Commission.
Conservative sources will meet on Tuesday night during a "hurry" planned meeting to take exceptional steps to disqualify Brown. I told the National Post that I had talked about.
Brody said he had given Brown ample opportunity to provide information to alleviate his concerns, but that information was not provided.
"Through the investigation of these allegations, the Supreme Returning Officer and I have provided the time necessary to be fair and substantially refute Patrick Brown's leadership campaign. I did my best to do these claims, "he said. We regret having to take these steps, but all candidates and campaign teams are obliged to ensure respect for both party rules and federal law. None of these issues affect the integrity of the vote itself.
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Leadership campaign to scrutinize
Given a preliminary list of party members 52}Poilievre team claims that Brown's supporters offered to pay for membership
Brody will share information with the party in Election Canada.
Sources confirmed to the National Post that the decision to disqualify Brown was made with 11-6 votes from the Organizing Committee.
The party was concerned about selling a record number of members before voting and confirming all new members, but party sources said it was not a challenge.
Several ballots have been printed, but conservative sources claim that the race will continue on the same schedule and the winner will be announced on September 10. did.
According to a number of his own campaigns, Brown sold the second highest membership during the race. This is about 150,000.
His departure leaves Conservatives Pierre Polyevre, Leslin Lewis, and Scott H. Son, along with former Premier of Quebec Jean-Chareste and former Ontario MP Roman Baber.
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