The NSW Liberal Party blames limited resourcing for missing a critical deadline to nominate candidates for local council elections in September.
Dozens of NSW Liberal candidates will not be able to run in local elections in September after the state Liberal branch failed to meet a critical deadline.Dozens of would-be local councillors across New South Wales will not be able to run for office in September after the state Liberal Party failed to meet a critical deadline to nominate candidates.
"With the Secretariat resources that we had available unfortunately we were unable to nominate in all of the local government areas that were put forward by the State Executive," Mr Shields said. "On behalf of the Secretariat, I would like to apologise to Liberal endorsed councillors that were not nominated and to the party membership more broadly."
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