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Parliament prior to the state election. Image \/ Pulse<\/p>\nPremier Jeremy Rockliff has confirmed he will ask the Governor to recommission him to form the next government, despite the Liberals falling four seats short of a majority in a hung parliament.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Sunday after all 35 seats were declared, Rockliff said Labor leader Dean Winter had forced an unnecessary election that backfired badly.<\/p>\n
\u201cDean Winter forced an election. It\u2019s blown up in his face. He needs to accept responsibility for Labor\u2019s terrible vote,\u201d Rockliff said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Labor Party has received their lowest vote for 120 years or more.\u201d<\/p>\n
While the Liberals ended up with the same 14 seats they held before the poll, Rockliff insists the outcome still gives him a clear mandate to govern.<\/p>\n
Parliament prior to the state election. Image \/ Pulse<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a swing towards the Liberal Party, we\u2019ve received over 40% of the vote,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a reflection of the will of the Tasmanian people and that needs to be respected.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rockliff did not say when he will approach Governor Barbara Baker to seek recommissioning.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is my intention, of course, as I said on election night, to request the Governor recommission our government and then we can get on with the job of what we were elected to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut also work with each and every member of parliament to ensure that everyone has their say like they did before. The previous parliament was working until Dean Winter forced an election.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Labor has signalled it is prepared to work with crossbenchers to form government if the Liberals cannot secure the backing of four MPs.<\/p>\n
However, Rockliff dismissed that possibility, saying he does not need formal agreements to govern.<\/p>\n
\u201cTasmanians have spoken. We have 14 seats, by far the most seats,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd while I would welcome individual members of parliament signing confidence and supply [agreements], we don\u2019t need that to form a minority government.\u201d<\/p>\n
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He also warned that any attempt by Labor to take power would hinge on support from the Greens.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Labor received confidence and supply from the crossbench, they would have to do a deal with the Greens. And that would be a key election commitment that Mr Winter would have broken,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTasmanians would have a very dim view of Mr Winter going back on his word.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Premier Jeremy Rockliff has confirmed he will ask the Governor to recommission him to form the next government,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-40581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}