LNP to preference Informed Medical Opinions Party last on how-to-vote cards
After announcing Labor would be put last on how-to-vote cards, the LNP will now preference another party last in every seat that it’s running over its anti-vax stance.
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THE LNP has preferenced a renowned anti-vaxxer party last on how-to-vote cards following Leader Deb Frecklington’s proclamation that Labor was going at the bottom.
Meanwhile Labor has preferenced the LNP above a raft of minor parties including One Nation and the Informed Medical Options Party (IMOP).
Ms Frecklington announced on October 5 at the New Acland coal mine that Labor would be going last in every seat, flagging the Palaszczuk Government’s repeated uncertainty around approvals for the mine’s expansion.
“We also know that thousands of jobs will be lost if this decision to approve this mine doesn’t happen and that is why the LNP will be putting Labor last on our how to vote cards,” she said at the time.
She also said the party needed to see who would run in every seat.
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An LNP spokesman yesterday said the party was standing by the principle of putting Labor last but was making an exception in the seats where IMOP candidates were running.
“The LNP fundamentally disagrees with IMOP’s position on vaccines,” he said.
“The world is racing to develop a vaccine for coronavirus that will save lives and allow us to rebuild our economies.”
Meanwhile ex-Newman Government Tourism Minister Jann Stuckey’s hatred of her old party has been laid bare, with the veteran former Gold Coast LNP MP urging local residents to vote Labor ahead of the conservatives.
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Ms Stuckey resigned from parliament in February after 16 years as the member for the southernmost coast seat of Currumbin.
She accused the LNP of bullying her and lashed the candidate parachuted in to replace her in the marginal electorate, barrister Laura Gerber, saying the party had wanted ‘any skirt’ to stand.
Ms Stuckey and her GP husband Richard later resigned from the LNP, and Dr Stuckey is now standing as an independent in Currumbin.
The former MP this week wrote to Currumbin’s 30,000 constituents to inform them that her husband was running in the seat, enclosing his media statement and how to vote card.
Labor candidate Kaylee Campradt – who narrowly lost the March by-election for the seat to Ms Gerber – is preferenced second on the how to vote card behind Dr Stuckey.
Ms Gerber has been placed a distant sixth on the list of eight candidates, behind No. 5 pick Anna Palmer – wife of mining tycoon and frustrated former politician Clive Palmer.
Ms Stuckey also asks Currumbin residents to help out her husband on polling day ‘if you are able to spare a few hours’.
Dr Stuckey said he was standing to raise awareness of specific health issues, including voluntary euthanasia laws, and to advocate on local projects including connecting the heavy rail to Gold Coast Airport.
Originally published as LNP to preference Informed Medical Opinions Party last on how-to-vote cards