It is the nominating committee's duty to ascertain that all nominated candidates, including those nominated by petition, meet the eligibility requirements.
Currently about 30% of all nominated candidates are women, slightly below 2011 numbers – though none of the parties have filled vacancies in all 338 ridings.
What won't you rebel against?! Besides, the Grand Old Party, the party of traditional marriage, traditional values and traditional skin tones embracing their nominated candidate as a maverick, is bizarre anyway.
Until the 20th century indeed, not even the nominated candidate had to make a speech at the convention, never mind his wife.
According to an investigative report published in December 2011 in the Chinese business newsmagazine Century Weekly, then-minister Liu Zhijun picked Zhang, a deputy chief engineer, to be the ministry's nominated candidate for CAS membership in the 2007 elections.
Not since Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 1989 has a petition-nominated candidate been elected as a Harvard Overseer.
Their third child, Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, was born on July 14 , 1912 twelve days after that year's Democratic Presidential Convention, and named for the freshly nominated candidate.
It is not clear whether Dr Marek will face disciplinary action by the Labour group for allowing his name to go forward against the group's nominated candidate.
Tony Clarke has run two very strong campaigns for Labor, one state and the second federal, and his tagline "no sight, great vision" would be proven in the senate were he Labor's nominated candidate.
The EPP - the largest centre-right grouping in the parliament - won the most seats in May's polls, and Mr Juncker, its nominated candidate, has argued that gives him the mandate.
Following these disqualifications, Reddy remained the only validly nominated candidate in the fray which made elections unnecessary.
