Richard Wynne announced his retirement months ago and will be replaced as a Richmond Labor candidate by Lauren O’Dwyer, associate director of strategy at the Melbourne Arts Center and a former Labor employee.
These pre-selections have not materialized, but party leaders have decided on the candidates and the nominations will be imminently sealed, according to various Labor sources unauthorized to speak publicly.
Miquel Galea.
Labor is also set to confirm its candidates for seats, including Brighton (Port Phillip City Councilor Louise Crawford), Kew (Lucy Skelton), Melbourne (former Australian Financial Review journalist Rebecca Thistleton ) and Morwell (Gippsland doctor Kate Maxfield).
The Liberal Party has to get 18 almost impossible seats to get the majority of seats in the lower house in the November elections.
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Labor, which has an 11-seat majority, faces threats from independents in the seats of western suburbs such as Werribee and Melton, strong challenges from the Greens in Richmond and Albert Park, and the prospect of losing seats such as Bayswater and Burwood won by meager margins. in the 2018 landslide.
A Labor minority government is considered a prospect if there is a relatively strong anti-government change. Labor hopes to make up for the losses by winning Caulfield, which Deputy Leader of the Opposition David Southwick won by about 200 votes.
Labor plans to run a strong campaign there and will pre-select corporate lawyer Lior Harel, an active member of the local Jewish community who has worked for Arnold Bloch Leibler and as chief adviser to SEEK.com.au.
A poll released Monday showed Victorian Labor have a 59.5-40.5 lead favored by two parties over the Coalition. However, the survey of 1,700 voters, conducted by Roy Morgan, does not align with the research of the main parties, which shows that the vote in the Labor primaries is lower than in the 2018 elections and greater support for the parties minors.
The government has avoided an unwanted by-election in the Kororoit seat after MP Marlene Kairouz decided not to resign prematurely. Kairouz has been negotiating with Victorian Labor insurers to pay less than the approximately $ 200,000 he owes the party in legal fees incurred in his unsuccessful litigation against the party.
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