The Progressive Conservative party executive meets today to decide on rules for a leadership race to find a replacement for Patrick Brown, who resigned amid sexual misconduct allegations last week.
A special party committee has spent the last few days drafting the rules, a timeline for the race and how much it will cost to enter the competition, which will be held just a few months before a spring general election.
The executive is expected to adopt the committee's recommendations, but has the power to make amendments.
Earlier this week Hartley Lefton, chairman of the committee, said the Tories will stick to their one-member one-vote rule, which would open up voting to the party's grassroots.
The party executive has set March 24 as the latest possible date to chose a new leader.
The leadership contest comes after Brown resigned last week, hours after emphatically denying sexual misconduct allegations.