0 the action of choosing, as a local political party, not to have the person who now represents your party as your candidate at the next election: --
At the time, the media predicted that he would not survive, and there was much talk of his possible deselection.
Deselection is the opposite procedure: the political party withdraws support from one of their elected office-holders at a subsequent election.
I think that people want to understand, and a referendum will ensure that a proper discussion of the issues takes place without the threat of deselection.
Rebellion can always be punished by deselection.
There were immediate calls for deselection and even expulsion from the organisation.
The threat of deselection overcame their basic decent instincts.
Can he say something about management indifference following deselection, if that happens?
I doubt whether anyone anticipated the antics of both the selection and deselection committees over the past week.
