• ikidd@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Don’t they know how the Liberal party works? The donors and backroom operators get to choose the leader, not the rank and file peasants.

    • sbv@sh.itjust.works
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      5 days ago

      eeeeeeh. To my knowledge, the leader is chosen in a public but anonymous ballot. Donors can popularize/support a candidate with the usual backroom shenanigans, but the party members (maybe delegates?) make the actual selection. I think those two usually line up, but it would be hyperbolic to say the leader isn’t elected by the party members.