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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is projected to lose his longtime rural Ottawa seat to Liberal Bruce Fanjoy.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

He still gets to be party leader, but he cannot sit in Parliament. There are two remedies for this. First, the party can choose a new leader from their elected MPs. Second, they can have an MP in a "safe" riding step down and then ask the government for a special by-election in that riding.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Yeah, they'll probably just parachute him into an Alberta riding. We're not rid of him yet.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I'm not sure that I can remember that being done for any leader at the federal level in the past 50 years or so. We'll have to wait and see.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

It's a weird situation. Like it or not, Polievre just achieved the highest Conservative vote share since the 1980s.

That he still lost is astonishing, and it'll be a while before anyone can sort out the path forward.

But I suspect they'll keep him around.

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