Seselja keeps ACT Senate ticket spot

Written By Unknown on Rabu, 27 Maret 2013 | 18.59

Zed Seselja will remain the Liberal Party's lead ACT Senate candidate in the federal election. Source: AAP

ZED Seselja will remain the Liberal Party's lead ACT Senate candidate in the federal election after a bid to overturn his preselection failed.

Mr Seselja, the former ACT opposition leader, ousted incumbent senator Gary Humphries for the preselection in February.

He won that ballot by 114 to 84.

But party members were unhappy at the process which saw many ineligible to vote in the preselection.

About 400 Liberal members were ineligible to cast a vote because of party rules that they must have recently attended a branch meeting.

A special divisional council meeting was called for Wednesday night to debate a motion to overturn the preselection result and hold a new vote.

That motion was defeated 138 to 168, so Mr Seselja keeps his spot on the ticket for the September 14 general election.

Heading in to the divisional council meeting, Senator Humphries said there was a lot of anger and bitterness in the party around the affair.

"I believe the party can only heal this division by having a fresh preselection," he told reporters in Canberra.

Mr Seselja led the Canberra Liberals to their best ever ACT election result last October, winning eight of the Legislative Assembly's 17 seats but failing to win the Greens' support to form government.

He moved to the backbench on announcing his intention to contest the federal preselection.

Senator Humphries, a former ACT chief minister, has represented the territory in the Senate since 2003.

Earlier on Wednesday Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said Senator Humphries had done an excellent job.

"In the end, I accept that these are matters for the lay party and I will respect the decision of the lay party but as one of my frontbenchers, Gary Humphries obviously has my full and total support," he told reporters in Melbourne.


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