00:00A familiar face in NT politics, now officially Darwin's new Lord Mayor.
00:09Peter Stiles achieved the required quota at Count 12 and is declared duly elected.
00:14A Deputy Chief Minister in the dying days of the Giles CLP Government, Peter Stiles'
00:20comeback today complete.
00:23Well it's a very exciting prospect now we can get on with the job of making Darwin a
00:28nice city to live in and an attractive city for people to come to.
00:31But he begins the role after one of the most controversial Darwin mayoral campaigns.
00:37The outgoing Lord Mayor still not accepting the result.
00:42How can you proclaim a Lord Mayor elect when you've got these allegations, these formal complaints,
00:48these investigations underway?
00:50NT police are investigating this allegedly fake how to vote card with a different order
00:56of preferences produced during the campaign.
00:59I've had nothing to do and my team's had nothing to do with the production of any of those
01:03how to vote cards that are the subject of that.
01:05The noise surrounding Stiles' election win, leading the Chief Minister to weigh in.
01:11Territorians need to have confidence in our systems and our institutions and the Northern
01:15Territory Electoral Commission is best placed to be managing elections and giving confidence
01:20to Territorians that our democracy is being protected and delivered.
01:24The Northern Territory Electoral Commission will conduct the elections in accordance with
01:27the electoral laws and we've done that and we've delivered a robust process for this election.
01:32The police investigation to determine whether candidates also followed the law.
01:38The Education of the Cypro-Persion Act
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