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Nationals leader David Littleproud is likely to face a leadership challenge today from MP Colin Boyce as MPs return to federal parliament.
Boyce earlier said he was mounting a challenge over his party’s decision to split from the Liberals triggered when the National Party voted against new hate speech laws last month after their unsuccessful amendment to the bill.
The Queensland MP claimed the Nationals were “asleep at the wheel”.
Last weekend, Littleproud declared he had “no issues” with Boyce challenging him for the leader’s job.
“He is well within his right (to challenge for the leadership),” Littleproud told Today.
”I’ll take counsel from my colleagues and I’ll take their guidance and their decision.”I believe passionately in the National Party and no matter the result, I’ll accept.”
Littleproud said the Nationals did not want to operate in a party room where “unilateral” decisions would be made.
But the Nationals and their former Coalition partners, the Liberal Party, have recorded dismal polling with voters flocking to One Nation.
Boyce, who has been in federal parliament since 2022, has previously said the Nationals needed to change direction, and remain in the Coalition to challenge the increasing threat from Pauline Hanson’s party.
He announced last week that he will challenge Littleproud for the leadership of their party, describing the decision to split the Coalition for the second time in a year as “political suicide”.
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