Sunak garners for the second time the largest amount of support in the voting to succeed Johnson

MADRID, 14 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak has garnered for the second time the largest amount of support in the vote to choose Boris Johnson's successor as British Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, followed by the United Kingdom Secretary of State for Trade, Penny Mordaunt .

The Conservative Party presented on Tuesday the definitive list with the eight names that choose to succeed Johnson, a process from which the candidates with the least support in successive votes will be left out until there are two contenders. The final result will be announced after the summer.

In this second round, Rishi Sunak leads the vote again, since he has obtained 101 votes compared to the first -in which he managed to collect 88--, followed by Penny Mordaunt, who has repeated a second place after garnering 83 votes. compared to 67 in the first phase.

"I am incredibly grateful for the continued support of my colleagues and the general public," Sunak said, adding that he is prepared "to give everything" he has in service to the nation. "Together we can restore confidence, rebuild our economy and reunite the country," he said, as reported by the 'Independent' newspaper.

To those previously expelled from the process, the former Minister of Health Jeremy Hunt and the one in charge of the Finance portfolio Nadhim Zahawi, has been joined by the Attorney General Suella Braverman, who has been in last place.

Among her proposals, the attorney general had promised that she would remove the United Kingdom from the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights and cut VAT on energy, as reported by the British network BBC.

In third place, after Sunak and Mordaunt, is the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Liz Truss, with 64 votes and, behind her, the former Minister for Equality Kemi Badenoch, with 49, as well as the president of the Committee on Foreign Affairs Foreign of the House of Commons, Tom Tugendhat, in penultimate position with 32 supports.

Once the shortlist is reduced to two candidates, the next 'tory' leader and, therefore, the country's prime minister, will come out of a more extensive vote finally carried out by mail and in which the members of the British Conservative Party will participate, which has about 200,000 militants.