The former arts minister’s narrow win was a pyrrhic victory for the Liberal Party’s moderate faction after a decade of dominance in NSW.
As the votes started trickling in on Friday evening for the NSW Liberal Party’s new state president, the moderates were getting antsy. The faction’s candidate, former arts ministersigned off on the results on Saturday, he had 369 votes to Bailie’s 368. But with three or four votes in dispute because delegates used ticks and crosses instead of numbers, there’s already chatter about appealing, although at the time of writing it was just that.
While all eyes were on the big vote, Harwin’s factional comrades struggled further in the race for the two vice-presidential spots. Corrs Chambers Westgarth lawyerfailed 2022 campaign for Warringah. It’s the first time since 2011 that a moderate hasn’t come first in the veep vote. It also meant the only female candidate, Hawkesbury mayorThere’s little chance anyone will stop Harwin taking the presidency, but his wafer-thin win makes the weekend’s victory a pyrrhic one.
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