The day after Liz Trace resigned,

Britain begins a lightning campaign to choose a prime minister

Liz Truss will remain in power until a new prime minister is chosen.

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Yesterday, in Britain, a campaign to search for a person to head the government began within a week at most, to succeed Liz Terrace, who announced her resignation from the premiership the day before yesterday.

And the Minister of Relations with Parliament, Penny Mordaunt, announced on Twitter yesterday, her candidacy for the British Prime Minister, after the resignation of Terrace.

"I am announcing my candidacy to be your Conservative Party leader and prime minister, to unite our country, fulfill our commitments and win the upcoming legislative elections," said the 49-year-old, who previously held the defense and international trade portfolios.

Among the potential contenders who have yet to formally announce their candidacy are former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak and former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who will likely try to return a little more than three months after being pushed to resign following a series of scandals. Only 44 days ago, and unpopular, to finally give up the position, she was toppled by a deep crisis of confidence after fluctuations in her decisions to calm a market storm sparked by her government's budget announcements.

"Given the situation, I cannot fulfill the mandate for which the Conservative Party elected me," said Truss, 47, in announcing her resignation in front of the Government House in London.

She had presented herself the previous day as a "fighter" and "not a resigning figure", but the depth of mistrust undermined her determination to become Britain's shortest-serving prime minister.

Analysts believe that Conservative Party MPs were faced with two options, the best of which was bitter, and chose the least harmful by forcing Ters to resign, to be the fourth prime minister to fall in their era, after David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson.

The Conservative Party is betting that there will be time for a new prime minister, who will rebuild the party's image.

The next prime minister will lead a country mired in a dangerous cost of living crisis, with inflation exceeding 10%, the highest rate recorded in 40 years.

To appoint a new prime minister by October 28, the Conservative Party, which has been in power for 12 years, has put in place quick measures.

Contestants must have the support of at least 100 Tory MPs by 14:00 (13:00 GMT) on Monday.

This allows the number of candidates to be limited to three at most, as the party is represented by 357 MPs in the House of Commons.

After that, MPs will have to agree on just two candidates, with the party's 170,000 members choosing one of them by an online vote by October 28, or one candidate traveling directly to the 10 Downing Street prime minister's office.

Until that happens, Liz Terrace remains in power.

Political expert Tim Bell, a professor at Queen Mary University of London, said the 100-vote threshold would "probably" disqualify Boris Johnson.

"I don't think MPs want to go back," Bell told AFP, recalling that "two-thirds of the voters wanted him to resign" last July.

The same expert continued, "The belief that the voters want his return is an illusion."

A YouGov poll, published Thursday evening, found that eight in 10 Britons believed Liz Truss was right to quit.

It was the introduction of a mini-budget that included energy bills and huge, unfunded tax cuts on September 23 that led to the prime minister's departure.

This plan caused the pound sterling to drop to historical lows, panicked the markets, and almost caused a financial crisis without the Bank of England's quick intervention.

Terrace sacked its finance minister, Kwasi Quartetig, before abandoning the project, but failed to improve the situation, to the point that it broke records in the decline of its popularity.

With the Labor opposition leading the Conservative Party in all opinion polls, its leader, Keir Starmer, has called an immediate general election.

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