'Rigged': Right-wing Liberals hit back at Ruddock 'unity' ticket

By Latika Bourke
Updated January 21 2018 - 3:13pm, first published 3:07pm
News.  Retired Major General Jim Molan at the Australian War Memorial.  26 December 2012     Canberra Times Photo by Jeffrey Chan
News. Retired Major General Jim Molan at the Australian War Memorial. 26 December 2012 Canberra Times Photo by Jeffrey Chan
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 01:  Walter Villatora has lunch with Cory Bernardi  and three other men at China Doll restaurant  on June 1, 2017 in Sydney, Australia.  Cory Berardi has said membership is at 40 per cent of the NSW Liberals nd he's expecting to challenge then at the enxt election.  (Photo by Jessica Hromas/Fairfax Media)
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 01: Walter Villatora has lunch with Cory Bernardi and three other men at China Doll restaurant on June 1, 2017 in Sydney, Australia. Cory Berardi has said membership is at 40 per cent of the NSW Liberals nd he's expecting to challenge then at the enxt election. (Photo by Jessica Hromas/Fairfax Media)

The right-wing faction pushing for democratic reform within the New South Wales branch of the Liberal party has smacked down a proposal fielded in the media to install the former immigration minister Philip Ruddock as president, saying it is "rigged" to deny members their right to vote in preselections to decide political candidates.

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