Former Labor national president, Graham Mundine, has reversed his earlier stance that Gisele Kapterian won the Liberal preselection in Sydney's north shore solely because she is a woman. He now pledges full support for Kapterian's campaign, stating that gender should not be a deciding factor in elections. Kapterian, backed by prominent Liberals, secured the preselection and will contest the seat against a popular Teal candidate.
has walked back earlier comments that Gisele Kapterian had beaten him in a Liberal preselection battle in Sydney’s north shore because she was a woman.have a women problem as a “sideshow”. He told Guardian Australia he now vowed to do everything possible to get Kapterian elected to federal parliament.“She is entitled to her views, but I have text messages regarding her being a woman,” Mundine said.
Mundine had been backed by fellow leading anti-voice campaigners, including the former Liberal prime minister Tony Abbott. On Wednesday, Angus Taylor backed the preselection process, saying Kapterian had won through a “democratic plebiscite process” based on merit.“I believe firmly in merit, and what I absolutely love about the democratic process we went through for Bradfield … is that they’re democratic processes where our members get to choose the person they want as their candidate and to represent them in this seat,” he said.
“It’s really important that we have women representing us in the Liberal party at parliamentary level, but also at an organisational level too, pushing them through the race, through to those senior roles,” she said on Wednesday.
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