00:00Less than 48 hours after Canberra Liberals leader Elizabeth Lee conceded defeat in the election,
00:08a familiar face was already making his case for a return to the top.
00:14I'll be putting my hand up for the leadership of the Canberra Liberals looking forward to 2028.
00:19I believe that I'm in the best position to lead the party to victory.
00:23Today, Mr Hanson, who opposed the ACT's drug decriminalisation laws,
00:27voluntary assisted dying bill and opposed the voice to parliament,
00:31sought to downplay internal party politics
00:34and his characterisation as a member of the party's right wing.
00:38At the end of the day I'm a Liberal and I don't shy away from that.
00:41Mr Hanson led the party between 2013 and 2016,
00:45winning 11 seats but also delivering an election loss and a 2.2% swing against them.
00:51He acted as opposition leader while Ms Lee was on maternity leave
00:54but was dumped as deputy leader in December last year after tensions grew between the pair.
00:59The leadership of the Liberal Party is traditionally spilled after an election loss
01:04and although the exact make-up of the party room is dependent on a couple of seats which have yet to be called,
01:10battle lines are already being drawn for what appears to be yet another factional fight
01:15between the party's moderate and right wing,
01:17the latter a direction which current and former Liberal figures have warned the party against taking.
01:23I want them to tell me where those extra primary votes are going to come from
01:27because on the political landscape when you look over to the right from us
01:31there's only family first in the Belco party and their vote is minuscule.
01:34They can win in the future but they've got to keep away from right wing policies, conservative approaches.
01:41The Chief Minister, now set for another four years in government, was today firmly focused on his own party.
01:47The election produced some swings against some of the incumbent parties including Labor
01:52so there are always lessons to learn.
01:54What the next assembly will look like is becoming clearer as vote counting continues.
01:59Today the ABC called a ninth seat in the electorate of Ginninderra in favour of Liberal candidate Shaka Barry
02:05while Sitting Green's MLA Andrew Braddock has retained his Yerrabee seat
02:09and veteran Labor MLA Mick Gentleman remains in the race for the final seat in Brindabella.
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