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49 election candidates, including many incumbent deputies and a wave of new faces, have registered to stand in the first island-wide election next month in a bumper first day of nominations.
Nominations opened on Tuesday morning and will come to a close at 16:00 on Friday, when the full list of candidates will be published.
Deputy Al Brouard, who reportedly camped outside the Royal Court building from 07:00 yesterday morning, was the first to register. He was one of 19 current Deputies who have already confirmed they will seek re-election.
Some new candidates have also formally announced their plans to run for the office of States Deputy after handing in their forms, whether that be independently or as part of one of the registered parties.
Tomorrow I register as a candidate in our 2020 Election. I’d like to thank my proposer and seconder, both for their nominations and for their Testimonials on my website, https://t.co/T1vg2YeaFk
— rick lowe (@ricklowe08) August 31, 2020
Roger Allsopp OBE FRCS LLM & Dr Rachel Norman @RachelRnorman - thank you both so much.
A few others are putting themselves back up for election after years out of politics.
While some incumbent States Members have also been up to the court to register for re-election.
I’m officially a candidate! My thanks to a Richard Graham and Karen Girdlestone for proposing and seconding my nomination pic.twitter.com/knEEUXWHbG
— Charles Parkinson (@VoteParkinson) September 1, 2020
Time to formally announce that I have registered as a candidate for the General Election. Huge thanks to my proposer &seconder @HeidiSoulsby with whom I’ve worked as VP of HSC for 4.5 years & @mkleclerc who has been one of the best Deputies & who will be much missed
— Rhian Tooley #moveforwardtogether (@RhianGsy) September 1, 2020
Among them was Mother of the House, Deputy Mary Lowe.
I lodged my General Election nomination form this morning and now look forward to taking part in my second Island Wide Election, the first being 1997 as a Conseiller.
— Deputy Mary Lowe (@DeputyMaryLowe) September 1, 2020
I’d like to thank Noel Duquemin and Diane Archenoul for proposing and seconding me.
The nomination period will come to a close at 16:00 on Friday.
Here is the full list of election candidates so far:
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