The Tories have launched a formal offer to force local elections to continue in May after the government had postponed them for millions of voters in England.
Kemi Badenoch, the conservative leader, tries to cancel an order of ministers to postpone elections in nine council areas.
These are East Sussex, West Sussex, Essex and Thurrock, Hampshire and the island of Wight, Norfolk, Suffolk and Surrey.
According to Labor's plans, polls that appear in these areas on 1 May will take place next year after a reorganization of the local government.
The government wants to abolish two -part systems – where voters are represented by both provincial and district councils – in favor of unity authorities with population of around 500,000 people.
There are currently 21 provincial councils throughout England with 164 district councils underneath. But Labor believes that the dual structures are inefficient.
Mrs Badenoch imposed an early daily movement in parliament this week in which it was called to 'cancel' the postponement order.
The government could now find time for the 'prayer' motion to debate by a committee or in the House of the Lower House, where MPs could vote to hold elections in the diary.
Kemi Badenoch, the conservative leader, tries to cancel an order of ministers to postpone elections in nine council areas.
According to Labor's plans, polls that appear in these areas on 1 May will take place next year after a reorganization of the local government
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner announced the delay earlier this month for elections in the nine areas
Kevin Hollinrake, the shadow homes, communities and secretary of the local government, belonged to a group of Tory MPs to support the motion of their party leader.
He said: 'The Labor government has hurried this imposition enormously.
'There has been no attempt to collect consensus within two -fold areas. Local residents were not consulted at any stage.
'Councilors have a' gun against their head 'from the Labor Government. These elections are not 'postponed' – they are canceled.
'This massive change is unprecedented and completely wrong.
“We are mainly concerned about the considerable delay of a maximum of three years before the new councils are present, and existing councilors who serve a term of office of seven years.”
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner announced the delay earlier this month for elections in the nine areas.
She said to the commons: 'We are not busy keeping elections on authorities that will not exist and where we will not know what will replace them.
“This would be an expensive and irresponsible waste of the money from the taxpayers, and every party that calls these elections to explain how this waste would be justified.”
Mrs. Rayner said she had only signed on cancellations in half of the areas that asked for a reorganization.
“The starting point of the government is that all elections will continue, unless there is a strong justification for postponement, and the bar is high, and rightly so,” she added.
The relocation would affect the North West Essex constituency of Mrs Badenoch, where the district councils of Essex County Council and the district councils of Chelmsford and Uttlesford are expected to be deleted and replaced.
