"Conservative Party executive director Dimitri Soudas resigns over nomination spat"

Conservative Party executive director Dimitri Soudas resigns over nomination spat

By: Jennifer Ditchburn, The Canadian Press

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/conservative-party-executive-director-resigns-over-nomination-spat-253130731.html

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OTTAWA - The Conservative party lost top 2015 election organizer Dimitri Soudas Sunday, amid mounting concerns he was using his position to help his fiancee's nomination bid in a suburban Toronto riding.

Party brass have been trying to convince grassroots Conservatives that they can count on open and fair nominations across the country, with no favouritism shown toward incumbent MPs.

But Soudas, who is close to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, appeared not to have heeded a requirement in his contract as executive director that he steer clear of the riding of Oakville-North Burlington where his partner MP Eve Adams intends to run.

Party sources say that despite the high connections Soudas has in the party, the evidence of interference in the Oakville nomination battle had grown too large to ignore and he had become "a distraction."


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