In another crushing blow to the Greens Party, it appears that leader Adam Bandt could be losing his Melbourne seat to Labor’s Sarah Witty, leaving the minority party without a leader.
While most of us have been indulging in the disastrous federal election results of the Liberal Party — which saw Peter Dutton kicked out of the race for both PM and his seat of Dickson — it appears that the Greens have also been having a nightmare of a time.
In a major blow to the minor party, Adam Bandt has seemingly lost his seat of Melbourne to Labor’s Sarah Witty after suffering a major swing during the several-day count.
Per The Sydney Morning Herald, on Wednesday, Bandt received 47 per cent of the vote, whereas Witty clocked 52 per cent. With Bandt losing his spot, the Greens would be left without a leader.
Bandt’s defeat will come as a shock to the minority party, with ABC News reporting that the leader was confident he would be locked in for Melbourne as recently as Tuesday.
At the time of writing, the Greens have retained the lower house seat of Ryan, with Elizabeth Watson-Brown holding it down for the party.
Earlier on, the Greens also lost its seats in Brisbane, with both Stephen Bates and Max Chandler-Mather losing their spots in this year’s blood bath of an election.
That being said, The Sydney Morning herald reports that the Greens will “maintain is strong presence” in the Senate, with the government being able to pass on laws with the support of the Greens without needing support from the cross benchers of the Coalition.
The Labor government could also overcome objections from the Greens by seeking negotiations with the Liberals and the Nationals.
With Bandt being booted from Melbourne, it has been tipped that Greens Senators Sarah Hanson-Young, David Shoebridge or Mehreen Faruqi could take his spot as the new supreme.
At the time of writing, Bandt has not conceded defeat.
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