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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Amy Remeikis and Sarah Basford Canales

What’s Dutton’s strategy for picking the NSW Senate spot winner? Back both frontrunners

Andrew Constance and Zed Seselja
Former state minister Andrew Constance and former ACT senator Zed Seselja are the frontrunners in the race to fill the Liberal party’s NSW Senate spot vacated by Marise Payne. Composite: AAP

The Liberal leader, Peter Dutton, wants to back a winner. Even if it means endorsing two candidates in the New South Wales Senate race.

Dutton has backed the former ACT Liberal senator Zed Seselja for the spot that was opened up by Marise Payne’s resignation, with Seselja the hope of the party’s hard right.

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