NT government faces tough election year

A FORMER CLP leader says the government has been hamstrung from the inside out and now faces losing to Labor at the 2016 territory election.

THE political woes of the Northern Territory's ruling Country Liberals Party puts the government in a losing position ahead of next year's election, a former leader says.

"THE government hasn't been able to develop a coherent political narrative," said Jodeen Carney, who led the CLP in opposition and left politics in 2010.