Poilievre to face leadership review in January

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will face a leadership review vote in January during the party’s next national convention.

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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will face a leadership review vote in January during the party’s next national convention.

The leadership vote will be held at a full policy convention in Calgary, according to multiple reports. An official date has not yet been finalized.

Under the Conservative Party constitution, a leadership review is required at the first national convention following an election loss, unless the leader resigns. Conservative delegates from across the country will vote by secret ballot on whether to initiate a leadership race.

While the Conservatives gained 22 seats and secured over eight million votes nationally, Poilievre lost his longtime riding of Carleton, which he had held since 2004.

He is now preparing to re-enter Parliament via a by-election in the Alberta riding of Battle River–Crowfoot, MP Damien Kurek stepped aside to clear the way for a by-election.

The by-election is expected later this summer.

The decision to hold the convention in Calgary was made by the party’s national council during a meeting on Saturday according to The Globe and Mail.

Sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly, said some members had pushed for a later date in March, but Poilievre preferred to face the vote sooner.

The Conservative Party has yet to comment on the plans for the convention officially.

Although the Conservatives improved their seat count by 22 and their vote share to a record high, this marks the fourth consecutive election the party has failed to win against the Liberals.

It will also be the first leadership review since 2004 when Stephen Harper secured his leadership and led the party to power two years later.

Both of Harper’s successors, Andrew Scheer and Erin O’Toole, stepped down only months after their election losses in 2019 and 2021.