Like many other Lib Dem local parties my own is currently working its way through selecting candidates for next May’s local elections.
In at least one ward a sitting councillor will be facing a challenge and a contested (re)selection meeting. I think that few people would argue that that was a bad idea, that the person who had been the representative should have to show that they still have the confidence of their local membership.
On a wider scale we are seeing selections for the list members for the Greater London Authority. Two sitting members are standing down but the one person restanding is having to put herself in front of the membership and seek their continued support.
A similar process applies for the re-selection of MSPs on both the lists and for the constituencies.
At some point in the next 18 months or so our MEPs will, if they want to restand, have to do the same. Just as they did before the 2004 and 2009 elections.
When our elected Mayors come up for re-election they also will have to go before their membership to show they still have their support.
Of course in many of these cases, particularly at a more local level, such re-selections are done unopposed. However the principle, that re-selections are open contests still remains.
However there is one group of Liberal Democrat elected representatives who don’t have to face an open reselection contest: Westminster MPs.
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