The Greens are about to choose a new leader. Here’s how it works – and who could be Adam Bandt’s successor

Front row, from left: senators Larissa Waters, Sarah Hanson-Young and Mehreen Faruqi. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

The Greens will choose a new leader after Adam Bandt unexpectedly lost the seat of Melbourne at the federal election.

The party’s 11 senators and their sole remaining lower house MP – Elizabeth Watson-Brown, who held the Brisbane seat of Ryan – will decide on Thursday who should become the minor party’s fifth federal leader, with whoever claims the top job expected to address the media in the afternoon.