One Nation candidate Margaret Dodd quits, labelled party leader Pauline Hanson a ‘Liberal puppet’

ONE Nation has lost another candidate just a day out from the WA state election. Margaret Dodd has quit the party after attacking Pauline Hanson.

ONE Nation has lost another candidate just a day out from the West Australian state election.

Candidate for Scarborough Margaret Dodd, mother of murdered teenager Hayley Dodd, quit the party on Friday and will contest the seat as an independent.

Ms Dodd said she could no longer run with the party as it lacked integrity, honesty and transparency.

“I am of the opinion that this party is more adherent to a dictatorship than an democratic organisation and lacks principles,” she said in a statement.

“PHON in my eyes are not about the WA people and their future, but for personal power for senator Hanson, who will do and say anything to achieve her goal at whatever cost.”

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One Nation candidate Margaret Doddsays party leader Pauline Hanson lied to her. Picture: Colin Murty The Australian

Ms Dodd, who was a member of the party for four weeks, was criticised by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson for speaking out against the preference deal with the Liberals.

Ms Dodd refused to hand out how-to-vote cards with One Nation’s directive, instead telling voters to put the Liberals last.

Senator Hanson said on Friday morning that she no longer wanted Ms Dodd in the party.

Ms Dodd is the fifth candidate to leave the party during the election campaign.

“Pauline, you are supposed to be listening to the people. If you can’t listen to your own candidates, what chance have the people got?” she told the ABC last night.

“Don’t be so dishonest, don’t pretend that you are about something and then go and do deals with the Liberals unless you are going to be upfront and tell your candidates before they join that you are just a Liberal puppet.

Pauline Hanson is facing a revolt in WA. Picture: Colin Murty The Australian

“It makes me feel as though I have been lied to.

Ms Dodd said if One Nation leader Senator Hanson wasn’t being honest with her own party, how could voters trust her.

“It makes me feel that the party I have joined is dishonest and their only answer to any criticism is, you are disendorsed, suck it up or leave and you are not working as team.

“It’s very hard to work as a team when you are working in a dictatorship.”

In a response to the ABC, Senator Hanson said Ms Dodds could leave the party.

“There is still time for Ms Dodd to resign as a One Nation candidate and run as an independent,” she said.

“I certainly wouldn’t stand in the way of her leaving the party, in fact, I’d welcome it.”