In response to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Payman has said her party will launch a 'full-body contact competition' in marginal seats at the next election.
Independent senator Fatima Payman has rejected Anthony Albanese's calls to step down from the Senate ahead of launching her new political party. In comments to the Australian Financial Review, the prime minister challenged the 29-year-old to resign from the Senate. He said Payman should test her popularity by contesting the next election under the banner of her new political party. Payman, in the middle of her six-year term, is not up for re-election until 2028.
As she is already a senator, Payman does not need to register a minimum 1,500 members to form a party. Payman revealed her party would aim to run Senate candidates in each state and is eyeing some lower house seats too. This includes a potential candidate in Albanese's seat of Grayndler in Sydney's inner-west. "We are looking at running candidates in marginal seats.
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