The following changes to the Conservative Party Constitution are essential in order to create a democratic Party Constitution. They were agreed overwhelmingly by the Conservative Democratic Organisation at its conference in the Bournemouth International Conference Centre in 2023 and have been approved in General Meeting by the Campaign for Conservative Democracy. All Conservatives who wish to have a Democratic Party with a Democratic Constitution should support these measures.
· The Party Constitution should be capable of
being changed by a motion at an Annual General Meeting of the Party, to which
all Party members are invited on the basis of One Member One Vote with a 60%
majority of those voting.
- The Chairman of the Party Board, Two Deputy Chairmen, Treasurer, Chairman of the Candidates Committee and Chairman of the Conservative Policy Forum to be officers of the Party on the Party Board, elected by and accountable to Party Members·
- Constituency Associations should have the right to determine who their Conservative Parliamentary Candidate is, with minimum interference by CCHQ. This includes both selecting and deselecting candidates and selecting or deselecting their Member of Parliament. Any member of the Party should be able to apply to be the candidate. Local candidates i.e. those resident in the Constituency, should be invited for interview by the Executive Council. Where a Constituency Association passes a motion of no confidence in their MP in a General Meeting the Association they should be able to immediately start the process of selecting a new Parliamentary Candidate.
- The Party Conference should be controlled
by a subcommittee of the Party Board consisting of a majority of voluntary
members of the Party and should have motions for debate and votes taken on
those motions, with some motions selected by the members
- The Rules for the Election of the Party Leader
to be incorporated within the main body of the Constitution.
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