Liberal leadership candidates have to pay $125K to stay in race

Federal Liberal leadership candidates volition person to transverse different hurdle Friday to stay successful the contention — a outgo of $125,000 to the party.

The enactment requires candidates to wage a full entranceway interest of $350,000 successful instalments.

The candidates inactive successful the contention person made 2 archetypal payments of $50,000 each — 1 outgo to motorboat their campaigns and the 2nd to get entree to the party’s rank list.

Those candidates who conscionable today’s deadline volition inactive person to marque a last outgo of $125,000 by Feb. 17 astatine the latest.

On Thursday, erstwhile Liberal House person and enactment campaigner Karina Gould said her run is doing everything it tin to stay successful the race, contempt not having the resources of her main rivals.

She said the enactment constitution tried “as hard arsenic possible” to support the fig of candidates low, and present she’s moving to conscionable an “extremely aggressive” fundraising deadline.

In a fundraising email sent Tuesday night, Gould’s run told supporters that their campaigner needs to rise $100,000 by 5 p.m. contiguous to enactment successful the race.

Another candidate, erstwhile MP Frank Baylis, said Thursday helium volition conscionable each the deadlines.

“I recognize the party. It’s successful a precise hard position. This is simply a precise condensed race. We person a precise abbreviated clip play … But I respect what the enactment is doing, and we’re going to enactment wrong the confines of the rules that the parties laid out,” helium said.

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Three different candidates stay successful the race: erstwhile cardinal slope politician Mark Carney and erstwhile lawman premier curate Chrystia Freeland — wide seen arsenic the front-runners — and erstwhile MP Ruby Dhalla.

The Liberal enactment is trying to regenerate Prime Minister Justin Trudeau successful grounds time. It volition elite its adjacent person connected March 9, aft the candidates look disconnected successful 2 debates.

The enactment reported a week agone that astir 400,000 supporters registered arsenic members to ballot successful the enactment contention earlier the deadline.