Source: Overseas Network
From left to right: Penny Modant , Rich Sunak, Kemi Badnoch, Elizabeth Trass . (Data photo)
Overseas Network, July 19th On the 18th local time, the third round of voting was held in the British Conservative Party's first election. According to Sky News, in the voting that day, four candidates were allowed to enter the subsequent competition, Tom Tugandat, chairman of the lower house of parliament, was eliminated, and former Chancellor Rich Sunak continued to lead the way.
According to the voting results on the 18th, Sunak won 115 votes, former Defense Secretary Penny Modant won 82 votes, Foreign Minister Elizabeth Tras won 71 votes, former Secretary of State Kemi Badnoch, who was in charge of equality, and 58 votes, and Tom Tugendat, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Lower House of Parliament, received 31 votes, with the least number of votes eliminated.
Sunak received the most votes in the first three rounds of voting, and Modant always ranked second. These two are also the two candidates who are speculated that the outside world is most likely to reach the end. The UK will vote one after another until two candidates remain. Finally, about 160,000 members of the Conservative Party will vote for one of two and select the Conservative Party leader, and the list will be announced on September 5. According to the British political system, the Conservative Party is currently the ruling party, and its leader will automatically become the prime minister. (Overseas Network Yao Kaihong)