A Victorian Nationals MP says the opportunity of splitting up the Coalition in Victoria must be “on the desk” after the Liberals’ disastrous election outcome.
Danny O’Brien, the Nationals MP for Gippsland South, instructed ABC Radio whereas there had not but been any conversations on the matter, he believed it was price contemplating whether or not the Nationals and Liberal Occasion needs to be decoupled.
“We’d like to consider what finest is not only for us, however for the Liberal Occasion. Clearly, they’re going to undergo a good bit of soul-searching in coming days and weeks and months,” he stated.
“We carried out very effectively, it was an excellent consequence for the Nationals throughout regional Victoria. However finally, we wish to have the ability to ship from the federal government benches for the folks of rural and regional Victoria, and we’re not going to have the ability to, clearly, for the following 4 years.
“It’s going to be robust even on the subsequent election too, so I feel we should be contemplating what the most effective choices are for us… [splitting the Coalition] has obtained to be on the desk.”
As we’ve already reported, the Nationals had some luck in regional Victoria yesterday, seemingly clinching the seats of Mildura, Morwell and Shepparton again from independents.