Victorian Opposition Leader Jess Wilson will move a motion of no-confidence in Premier Jacinta Allan\u00a0on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The motion will be debated on July 28, before members vote on the Premier’s leadership.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ms Wilson said the move was aimed at holding the government to account over a series of issues.<\/p>\n
These included Victoria’s growing debt burden, the abandoned Commonwealth Games and allegations of corruption linked to taxpayer-funded Big Build projects.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The announcement comes after Ms Allan survived an internal leadership threat<\/a> after Deputy Premier Ben Carroll decided against mounting a challenge.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ms Wilson said Victorians were ready for a change of government ahead of the state election on November 28.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cVictoria needs a fresh start and that begins with changing the government and the Premier,\u201d Ms Wilson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s\u00a0time for a new government with the right priorities and a clear plan to deliver for Victorians.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cMy Liberal and Nationals team has a plan to ease cost of living pressures, grow our economy, end the crime crisis and restore hope and prosperity to Victoria.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Under Victorian parliamentary rules, the Opposition is limited to one unsuccessful no-confidence motion during a four-year term.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Victorian Constitution allows a no-confidence motion to be moved once during a parliamentary term.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n If such a motion succeeds, it could trigger the dissolution of the Legislative Assembly and force an election.\u00a0<\/p>\n As political pressure intensified this week, members of Labor\u2019s Left and Mr Carroll\u2019s Right faction were reported to have discussed replacing Ms Allan as pressure mounted.\u00a0<\/p>\n Those plans did not\u00a0proceed\u00a0after Mr Carroll withdrew from any potential leadership challenge on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ms Allan has since argued her opponents would face difficulties forming government without broader political support.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Premier also warned a parliament involving both the Coalition and One Nation could create instability for Victoria.\u00a0<\/p>\n Her comments came after two opinion polls<\/a>\u00a0published last week<\/a>\u00a0showed the party had dropped to third place behind the Coalition and One Nation.\u00a0<\/p>\n The last no-confidence motion against a Victorian premier was moved in October 2020 against Daniel Andrews.\u00a0<\/p>\n At the time, Mr Andrews faced criticism over the state’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n The Opposition also\u00a0attempted\u00a0a no-confidence motion in the lead-up to the 2018 election.\u00a0<\/p>\n Then-opposition leader Matthew Guy brought the motion over Labor’s so-called\u00a0rorts-for-votes scandal involving taxpayer funds.\u00a0<\/p>\n It was defeated by 49 votes to 33.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victorian Opposition Leader Jess Wilson will move a motion of no-confidence in Premier Jacinta Allan\u00a0on Thursday.\u00a0 The motion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,27305,16287,127355,44,358052,358054,358053],"class_list":["post-743320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-coalition","tag-jacinta-allan","tag-jess-wilson","tag-news","tag-no-confidence-motion","tag-victoria-labor","tag-victoria-premier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743320","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=743320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}