TORONTO — Two contenders for the Ontario Liberal leadership are banding together to urge their supporters to put the other as a second choice in a bid to stop Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie from finishing at the top of the pack.
Liberal MP and former provincial cabinet minister Yasir Naqvi and Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith announced Thursday that they have an agreement to ask supporters to select each other as their number two choice, and also to co-ordinate election weekend get-out-the-vote efforts.
"For us, this contrast is fundamental and guides our decision to collaborate and rank each other as our second choice." In the ranked ballot system that Ontario Liberals will use to vote on the weekend of Nov. 25 and 26, party members rank their choices. If one candidate gets more than 50 per cent of the points for first-choice votes, they would win, but if not, the candidate with the least amount of votes gets dropped and it goes to a second round."No one is winning this leadership on first ballot, let's be absolutely clear about this," he said at a press conference.
Erskine-Smith said Thursday's move isn't about stopping one person -"it's about building the kind of party that is going to deliver for Ontarians in the right way" - though he also said there are only three candidates who are truly competitive right now in the race.
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