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This is reprehensible, undemocratic behaviour
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It's a party leadership race, they aren't democratic, stop calling them democratic. They run under whatever rules the part wants them to run under.
It really bugs me that parties call their leadership races and policy conversations are called democratic. The leadership races run under rules that are made up and often ignored whenever the party leadership wants to or is heavily enforced when they want to.
The policy conversations by their nature also cater to who can show up, which tend to be the more extreme wings of the parties as originations like churches, unions, and other special interests cover costs if time off is needed.