Fallout continues over Liberal party’s failure to lodge paperwork to nominate 136 candidates in upcoming council local government elections
NSW Liberal leader Mark Speakman said he doubted any affected councillors or candidates would take legal action, but he couldn’t be sure.NSW Liberal leader Mark Speakman said he doubted any affected councillors or candidates would take legal action, but he couldn’t be sure.Liberal councillors are not ruling out taking legal action against the party, and others are demanding their money back after an administrative disaster that will prevent them from running in upcoming elections.
Georgia Ryburn, the Northern Beaches deputy mayor and one of six Liberals on the council, said she was “completely shocked and gutted”.“We’re looking at options. I think today is all about rallying around the Liberal team and supporting them and their families.” While Speakman would not blame the Liberals’ NSW president, Don Harwin, the fiasco has caused a meltdown within the state executive, the party’s governing body.
Two other senior state executive representatives, Peter O’Hanlon and Geoff Pearson, echoed Keating’s calls for Harwin and Shields to resign over the “massive failure”.
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