Rhiannon will now be under intense pressure to step down early to ensure the successful top placed candidate, NSW Legislative Council member Dr Mehreen Faruqi, can run as an incumbent at the next election. Faruqi beat out Rhiannon and two other candidates vying for the No 1 ticket spot on the Green’s NSW Senate ticket. “Some may see this result as a success for those who denigrated myself and the political tradition of the Greens NSW so blatantly in the mainstream media,” she said in a statement on Saturday. I really look forward to building on this legacy of the NSW Greens. Senior party figures hope this will bring to an end the infighting within the NSW Greens.

Source: The Guardian November 25, 2017 02:04 UTC