It is also going to elect an alternative candidate for the presidential elections of March 2012.

With the decision, attention immediately turned to the question of an alternative candidate.

Bacon was the first alternative candidate suggested as the true author of Shakespeare's plays.

This would cause supporters of Collins to look for an alternative candidate in 1997.

But they have not united behind an alternative candidate.

Democratic voters and party leaders need a process that will allow time for alternative candidates to emerge.

But the delay was damaging to the Administration, reducing its ability to offer an alternative candidate to head the organization.

"And we didn't have an alternative candidate to lead Iraq," he said.

But if he can't, convention rules provide for the selection of an alternative candidate.

Yet no convincing alternative candidate for author has been identified.