A Braddon candidate declared bankrupt a decade ago says he won’t pull out from this weekend’s by-election even though he’s likely to be ineligible to sit in parliament.
Australian People’s Party candidate Bruno Strangio was declared bankrupt in 2008 – undischarged bankrupts are ineligible to sit in parliament.
Bruno Strangio,
He was one of 13 candidates across five by-elections who refused to sign optional forms setting out how they are eligible to enter parliament if they win.
But Mr Strangio told AAP he’d deal with any eligibility issues in the very unlikely event he won.
“Why would anyone want to pull out of the running of the race?,” he said on Wednesday.
“Winning is going to be hard but why would anybody want to resign, or withdr…
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