Succession of Boris Johnson in the United Kingdom: the candidates line up for the departure one after the other

10 Downing Street, London (June 6, 2022), seat of the Prime Minister.

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The soap opera of the succession of Boris Johnson, leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister, continues with three new suitors in the running, which now brings the number of applicants to eight. 

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said he intended to stay in Downing Street until the party's new leader was elected.

The competition is therefore launched and on Saturday evening, three new candidates entered the ranks: the former Minister of Health Savid Javid (who resigned on Tuesday), the new Minister of Finance Nadhim Zahawi and the former Minister of Business Foreign Affairs and Health, Jeremy Hunt.

Three party heavyweights.

Jeremy Hunt, for example, had already faced Boris Johnson in 2019 for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

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In the previous episode yesterday, former Finance Minister

- another heavyweight - also declared his candidacy, while Defense Minister

decided not to run.

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Other candidates, the Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps, an experienced MP who cut his teeth in the cabinet of former Prime Minister David Cameron in 2010, the former Secretary of State for Equality Kemi Badenoch, Attorney General Suella Braverman and MP Tom Tugendhat.

She has not yet entered the race but could be interested according to analysts, Foreign Secretary

, is well positioned according to a Channel 4 poll of Conservative Party members.

She is considered a rising star of the Conservative Party.

New terms of designation?

Faced with this influx of candidates, the electoral process could be modified with an increase in the number of sponsorships and votes required in the first part of the designation process is envisaged, explained a member of the 1922 Committee, responsible for the internal organization of the party. .

And this so that the two finalists can be known within two weeks, before the summer parliamentary truce which begins on July 22.

   The final vote of the members of the conservative party - 160,000 voters in the last internal election of 2019 - would then take place by the start of the school year, according to the scenario which seems to stand out in the British press, specifies AFP.

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