The Victorian Liberals will forge ahead with a vote to expel Moira Deeming from the parliamentary party despite a shadow minister saying it risked “a very messy legal dispute” and should be cancelled.
Liberal MP Richard Riordan on Tuesday wrote to Opposition Leader John Pesutto, the leadership team andwho put their names to the expulsion motion to advise it was invalid under party rules.
The party’s parliamentary constitution was updated six months ago and states that a notice to expel a member must be signed by the leader, deputy leader, or five MPs. It must also specify the reasons for it. Former leader Matthew Guy, James Newbury, Roma Britnell, Cindy McLeish and Wayne Farnham put their names to the motion to expel Deeming for “bringing discredit” on the parliamentary team, but did not include their signatures.
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