Campaigning for election to provincial or state office frequently requ

(1)Campaigning for electoin to provincial or state office frequently requires candidate to spend much time and enery catering to interest of national party officials
(2)National party officials can help candidate to win office
(3)The elected officials who campaign for re-election while they are in office thus often fail to serve the interests of their local constituencies

1,2 --> Premise
3 ----> Conclusion

We need to find an answer choice that holds up the conclusion.


Which one of the following is an assumption made by the argument?

(A) Catering to the interests of national party officials sometimes conflicts with serving the interests of a provincial or state official’s local constituencies.
- We're not discussing conflict of interst, but a failure to serve the local constituencies the officials represent.


(B) Only by catering to the interests of national party officials can those who hold provincial or state office win reelection.
- Does not tells us that elected officials will fail to serve the interest of local constituencies because they are busy hosting national party officials

(C) The interests of local constituencies are well served only by elected officials who do not cater to the interests of national party officials.
- This one will fill in the logic gap. If elected official can only served the interests of local constituencies well if they do not cater to the interest of national party officials, then our conclusion is true.

(D) Officials elected to provincial or state office are obligated to serve only the interests of constituents who belong to the same party as do the officials.
- Out of scope

(E) All elected officials are likely to seek reelection to those offices that are not limited to one term.
- Out of scope

(C) it is