Deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley has endorsed tech executive Gisele Kapterian for a safe Sydney seat, backing her over anti-Voice campaigner Nyunggai Warren Mundine. The preselection vote is seen as crucial for the Liberal Party as they seek to hold onto the seat of Bradfield against a potential challenge from a teal independent candidate.
Deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley has thrown her weight behind tech executive Gisele Kapterian to beat anti-Voice campaigner Nyunggai Warren Mundine in the race to be the party’s candidate for a blue ribbon Sydney seat under threat from the teals.
Despite the Liberal Party losing several seats to female professionals running as teals at the last election and Fletcher’s public call for a woman to replace him, Ley’s letter of endorsement for Kapterian does not emphasise her gender. Kapterian, who worked as a senior staffer to former ministers Michaelia Cash and Julie Bishop, is now a senior director at software company Salesforce. Ley said Mundine was an “ideological powerhouse” in the party and noted she had backed him in the 2019 election when he ran for a NSW south coast seat.
Abbott, along with other prominent conservative figures including senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, are now lobbying members to pick Mundine, an Indigenous businessman with a high profile, from leading the No campaign at last year’s Voice referendum.. Hockey toldthis week that Mundine’s harsh criticism of the Voice created a risk of losing the only Liberal-held seat that voted yes at the referendum.
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