Chief minister elect Lia Finocchiaro says Sunday ‘the start of a new day and a new chapter’
The incumbent Labor government was defeated with a swing of 12.3 per cent to the CLP on a two-party preferred basis, with the ALP gaining just 25.9 per cent of the primary vote.The chief minister elect, Lia Finocchiaro, said the hard work on behalf of all Territorians would begin on Sunday in “the start of a new day and a new chapter”.
“I will meet with the police commissioner and the chief executive of the chief minister and cabinet to start the work that must immediately begin to make the territory safe,” Finocchiaro said in her acceptance speech on Saturday night.Finocchiaro said her party would get to work on delivering its plan to reduce crime, rebuild the economy and restore “our lifestyle.”“Every day I drove into work I would pinch myself and say this is an honour,” she said.
“It is now up to Labor in opposition to rebuild and look forward, but also to listen to what Territorians have said. That is politics.”She said she would say goodbye to politics.“I got into politics accidentally,” she told the Labor crowd on Saturday night after conceding defeat.The CLP is likely to take 16 seats of the 25-seat parliament, with at least one independent elected and the potential for the Greens to pick up their first NT seat in Fannie Bay.
Labor could have as few as four seats, the ABC election analyst Antony Green predicted late on Saturday night.
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