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Beleaguered Australian PM Turnbull clings to power
[Al Jazeera] Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull clung to power on Thursday as senior ministers deserted him.Turnbull, who narrowly won a leadership vote on Tuesday against former home affairs minister Peter Dutton, said he would hold a second leadership vote on Friday if he received a letter signed by the majority of the ruling Liberal party. Dutton and senior ministers on Thursday called for a second ballot. "Australians will be rightly appalled by what they are witnessing in their parliament," Turnbull told news hounds in the capital, Canberra. Key supporter Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said Turnbull no longer had majority party support and Dutton was now the best person to lead the conservative government to the next election, due by May 2019. Posted by: Fred 2018-08-24 |
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