Former UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is expected to be appointed parliamentary head of Your Party, the far-left political party he founded with fellow former Labour MP Zarah Sultana, after his bloc easily won the majority of the seats up for grabs on the party’s central executive committee.

Your Party said that 25,347 people voted in Thursday’s central executive committee (CEC) elections, amounting to over 61% of the party’s roughly 41,000 members.

Corbyn’s bloc, “The Many,” won 14 of the 24 available seats on the committee, while Sultana’s “Grassroots Left” slate picked up just seven. The remaining three went to independent candidates not aligned with either of the two leaders’ blocs.

Twenty of the 24 seats will be filled by women, and the CEC will now be tasked with filling key leadership posts, including chair, treasurer, and party spokesperson.

Corbyn, following his bloc’s victory, declared it was now time for “the real work” to begin, and to come together to overpower “the fear, divisiveness, and racism” of the hard-right Reform UK party.

“I am delighted that members have voted for a mass, socialist party that takes the fight to [Prime Minister Keir] Starmer and [Reform leader Nigel] Farage,” Corbyn said in quotes carried by British media. “Now the real work begins. We have a precious opportunity to unite our movement around a bold vision for this country – one that creates a more caring, equal and peaceful world for all.”

Sultana, in response to the results, acknowledged that this was not the result she had been hoping for, but stressed that she remained committed to “building a socialist, anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist party that is democratic, member-led, and focused on delivering real material change for our communities.”

Despite immediately garnering the public’s attention and the support of over 40,000 members, Your Party has been mired in near-constant controversy, including allegations of sexism, the expulsion of delegates from its first-ever party conference, and public rows between Sultana and Corbyn.

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