LNP’s Amanda Cooper looks to contest state seat of Aspley
Months after a former Liberal National MP became a councillor, another LNP representative is looking to do the opposite.
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A Brisbane councillor is in the running to contest one of the LNP’s key target seats at next year’s state election.
The Courier-Mail understands Bracken Ridge ward councillor Amanda Cooper has put up her hand for preselection to run in the seat of Aspley against Labor’s Bart Mellish.
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Cr Cooper did not respond to a request for comment. Under LNP rules candidates are forbidden from talking about their potential preselection.
Opposition Leader Deb Frecklington last month named Aspley as one of 11 target seats the party must win if it is to win government from Labor at the October 2020 poll.
Mr Mellish wrested the seat from the LNP at the 2017 election.
He beat then Newman government minister Tracy Davis, who is now a Brisbane city councillor herself after she replaced retired Cr Norm Wyndham earlier this year.
Labor holds the Aspley electorate with a margin of just over one percentage point.
It comes after Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk claimed underdog status during a keynote speech at Labor’s state conference at the weekend.
Ms Frecklington has also claimed underdog status.
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