According to the news released by the Toronto City authorities’ network, the city’s mayoral election will be held on the 26th of this month, and the voting time is from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. According to the list of candidates announced by the Toronto City authorities’ network, there are 102 candidates for the mayor’s election, and surprisingly, 101 of the 102 are human candidates, and one is actually a husky named Molly.
Molly and Heaps boating on Lake Ontario. (Photo: BBC report with photo)
‘Reputation Dog Mayor’
British Broadcasting company (BBC) reported that Molly, 6, is running with guests, and if she is selected, it will be her guest – a male Toronto citizen named Toby Heaps – who will represent Molly at the municipal rally and apply the functions of mayor. According to Heaps, one of Molly’s campaign pledges was to reduce the use of winter snowmelt in urban areas, because the highly saline snowmelt can be toxic to the soft pads of dogs.
Of course, on behalf of Molly mentioned no policy layout does not say this, other important policy essence includes the management of city housing prices are too high, the progress of large enterprise tax and the prohibition of new Hengyu application of fossil fuel heating and and system. Heaps let it be known that if elected, he would make Molly the first “reputation dog mayor” of Toronto.
In the face of such a fierce fold, Molly’s guests Heaps calm mouth, performance know Molly may be helpless to be selected. He said that it was his son’s encouragement that urged him to make up his mind to run, and his 7-year-old son said that even if he did not win the election, he would still feel broken for his father’s efforts.
Overseas Chinese women poll temporarily run
Toronto is the fourth largest city in North America, and New York, Los Angeles and other well-known North American metropolitan mayor election usually take the form of party nomination of their own party candidates to run, the mayor of Toronto needs to be elected alone, and the threshold of candidates is very low, as long as pay 250 additional yuan (about 1361 yuan discount) registration fee and collect 250 support signature can be elected. Molly the Husky has 102 candidates for mayor of Toronto, the largest number of candidates in the city’s history.
The BBC quoted local experts as saying that due to the large number of candidates, this will be a very “flexible” mayoral election.
Although pre-election polls show that Zou Chihui, a Chinese man and the widow of the late New Democratic Party leader Layton, is in the leading position, according to the latest opinion survey published by the Toronto Star, because of the support of former Mayor John Tory and former rival Anna Bellan, Zou Chihui has greatly expanded her lead. According to the poll, the support rate of Zou Zhihui is 29%, and Belang is 20%.
In addition, Toronto is a city with a highly diverse civic landscape, with people of different identities gathering here, including billionaires and senior crane, as well as immigrants and ordinary workers, so voter appeals are also highly diverse.
In general, local residents are enthusiastic about the reduction in gun violence, housing prices, homelessness and violence on the public transit system during former Mayor Tory’s tenure in recent years.
The former mayor retired because of an extramarital affair
Toronto’s election takes the form of “big town”, the election criteria are four years, the form of regional election is not elected 25 city councillors, the mayor is elected separately, a total of 26 people constitute the city Council. The city was last elected in October, and former Mayor Torley was supposed to serve until 2026.
However, according to the Toronto Star, which disappeared in February this year, Tory, a 68-year-old married man, had an affair with a 31-year-old woman from the city authority during the COVID-19 pandemic. A few days after the scandal broke, Tory announced his retirement and was replaced by the deputy mayor. Therefore, this election is regarded as an additional election.
According to CTV, voter enthusiasm in the city was low due to Tolley’s previous scandals. David Mirjan, a professor of political science at the University of Windsor, thinks the final turnout could be lower than the 29.7 percent of the previous election.