Pesutto and Battin face-off for Liberal leadership as Labor gets back on rail loop track

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John Pesutto has confirmed he will nominate to lead the Victorian Liberals — but first, he needs to win the marginal seat of Hawthorn. | annikasmethurst springst

Prominent moderate Liberal John Pesutto, who is hoping to win the marginal seat of Hawthorn, has confirmed he will nominate to be the next leader of the Liberal Party if he wins the inner-eastern Melbourne seat.The AgeHe said Liberal MPs had so far been “receptive” but that he was “respectful of the process”.

With seven lower house seats too close to call, the ballot for the Liberals’ next leadership team is not expected to be confirmed until next week.At a construction site of the Suburban Rail Loop in Clayton on Monday morning, Deputy Premier Jacinta Allan refused to be drawn on the upper house results, which do not look as promising for Labor as the lower house count. But she said the Andrews government had a track record of working across party lines to deliver its legislative agenda.

With almost every Labor minister guaranteed to win their seats, the Andrews ministry is expected to remain almost unchanged with only one spot – that of former frontbencher Jaala Pulford – vacant. Deputy Premier Jacinta Allan is the minister in charge of delivering the Suburban Rail Loop. She visited the Clayton project site with Labor MPs Steve Dimopoulos and John Mullahy on the Monday after the state election.In the seat of Northcote, Labor MP Kat Theophanous has a lead of 865 votes over the Greens.

 

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annikasmethurst What about Allan Raskall?

annikasmethurst Pesutto is like Turnbull before/after PMships. The Liberal ABC Q&A watchers like (but in reality would never vote for him) and somebody who is despised within his own party

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