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Norris has also served as the Mayor of the West of England since 2021 but is due to step down ahead of May's local elections.

The party had spent down its reserves on a now-historic election campaign earlier that year in which it won a plurality, though not a majority, of seats in the Reichstag, Germany's parliament.

This is Trump country - the Republican ticket easily won here in November's presidential election by a margin of almost two-to-one.

That could be an indication that the party will have the political wind at their backs in state elections this November and the midterm congressional elections next year.

"The post-election protest process preserves the fundamental right to vote in free elections 'on equal terms,'" the judges wrote in the opinion, citing legal precedent.