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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Benita Kolovos

Moira Deeming supporter Richard Riordan urges delay of Victorian Liberal’s expulsion vote

Moira Deeming.
Suspended Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming is facing a vote on a motion to expel her from the party. Photograph: Diego Fedele/AAP

Richard Riordan, a Victorian Liberal MP, has written to the party’s state leader, John Pesutto, calling for a delay to Friday’s vote to expel the suspended MP Moira Deeming or “risk a very messy legal dispute”.

The Polwarth MP also wrote on Tuesday to the five MPs who put their names to the expulsion motion – Roma Britnell, former leader Matthew Guy, Wayne Farnham, Cindy McLeish and James Newbury – saying it was invalid as they did not sign it or provide reasons.

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