Former Liberal leader Matthew Guy arrives for the vote.Credit:Eddie Jim
Michael O’Brien,Jess Wilson,Georgie Crozier and David Southwick left a Higgins 200 Club Liberal Party breakfast fundraiser at 8.20am to make their way to the party room meeting,according to a source at the event.
Nepean MP and former tennis player Sam Groth,who has long argued the Liberal Party needs to stop talking about itself,said before the vote he would listen to the respective arguments,but that it was time to “start moving forward as a party”.
Former opposition leader Matthew Guy,who put his name to Friday’s motion,declined to comment.
Shadow treasurer Brad Rowswell said he looked forward to the period after the vote,when the opposition would be able to give more of its attention to the upcoming state budget.
He added that Pesutto would “100 per cent” survive as leader.
Former treasurer Kim Wells said it was a shame that the Deeming saga had culminated in a second party room vote.
“I wish it hadn’t come to this,” he said as he entered parliament ahead of the vote.
“But now it’s got to be dealt with in the party room. So that’s the way it has to be.”
The new party room secretary is first-term upper house MPTrung Luu.
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