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Former Labor MP Adem Somyurek accuses Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews of historical branch stacking
Disgraced former state government minister Adem Somyurek has accused Premier Daniel Andrews of branch stacking, during an extraordinary speech in State Parliament.
Key points:
- Mr Somyurek accused Mr Andrews of being involved in ethnic branch stacking in Melbourne’s south-east in the 1990s
- Mr Somyurek also accused 60 Minutes and The Age of carrying out a “hatchet job” on him
- An audit of the party’s membership has so far removed 1,710 people deemed as illegitimate
The Upper House MP returned to Parliament for the first time since he was dumped from Cabinet and the Labor party in June, to give a personal explanation about a 60 Minutes expose that accused him of a large-scale branch stacking operation.
In his explanation this morning he repeated…
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