"The new left-wing party being founded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana has voted not to have a single leader. At the party's founding conference in Liverpool, voters opted to be led by a panel of members - avoiding a potentially explosive leadership race between Sultana and Corbyn. The party also overwhelmingly backed plans to allow members to remain in other left-wing groups, only days after several members were expelled for belonging to the Socialist Workers Party."
"A party spokesperson said the new leadership model "shows that we really are doing politics differently: from the bottom-up, not the top-down". "In Westminster we have a professional political class increasingly disconnected from ordinary people, serving corporations and billionaires instead of the communities they are supposed to represent," the spokesperson added. "With a truly member-led party, we will offer something different: democratic, grassroots, accountable.""
The founding conference in Liverpool voted against a single leader and chose a member-led panel as the party's leadership model. Members approved a Central Executive Committee of 16 non-politicians to lead the party, a decision that passed by a narrow 51% margin. The move averted a likely leadership contest between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana. Members also backed rules allowing simultaneous membership of other left-wing groups after recent expulsions for belonging to the Socialist Workers Party. The party will announce its name following a ballot of proposed names and has faced internal clashes and recent departures.
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