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WA election: Liberal leader Zak Kirkup holds ‘sincere wish’ to lead party after state poll
WA Opposition Leader Zak Kirkup says he has a “sincere wish and desire” to lead the Liberal Party into the future, but remains focussed on the immediate task of retaining his seat at the coming election.
Key points:
- Zak Kirkup last week conceded he would not win the state election
- However he remains confident he will retain the seat of Dawesville
- He expressed his intention to lead the Liberal party for the ‘long term’
West Australians head to the polls on March 13, but already a record number of voters have cast their ballots early, with the WA Electoral Commission also receiving more than 250,000 postal vote applications.
Mr Kirkup, who holds the seat of Dawesville by a knife-edge 0.8 per cent margin, said he remained confident he had the…
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