Suprovat Sydney Report: The New South Wales Liberal Party’s request for an extension has been denied due to a significant blunder in the council election nominations process. This decision comes after the party faced scrutiny over the mishandling of candidate submissions, which has led to complications in the upcoming local elections.

In New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, more than 100 Liberal Party candidates will be unable to stand in the upcoming council elections due to a “monumental blunder” that caused the party to miss the nomination deadline. NSW officials have confirmed that they are legally unable to accept late submissions. According to one of Australia’s leading election analysts, this error is expected to cost the party approximately 50 council seats.

Deputy parliamentary leader Natalie Ward voiced her anger on radio station 2GB, calling the situation a “monumental stuff-up,” while Anthony Roberts described it as “abysmal” during an interview with the ABC. Roberts, with 30 years of public service experience, stated, “It’s absolutely catastrophic; I’ve never seen anything this bad.” The NSW Liberal Party’s request for an extension to submit council election nominations has been denied, following their failure to meet a critical deadline for approximately 140 candidates.

Several veteran politicians are facing displacement, and voters in eight councils will find no Liberal Party candidates on their ballots due to a nomination error. State party director Richard Shields has apologized, attributing the oversight to “limited resources” that resulted in the failure to submit crucial paperwork by the deadline.

“Those individuals have not only paid an application fee, lost councillor fees for four years, but also made donations themselves,” Mr Newhouse said.

Opposition leader must step down for this reckless act which never happened in last 30 years, Cowra resident said.

The NSW Electoral Commission received an urgent request overnight from the party’s state president, asking for an extension to the nomination period for next month’s elections. In response to the oversight, the Liberal Party has pledged to refund nomination fees in full to candidates who were omitted from the ballot due to the error.

Election analyst Ben Raue estimates that this fiasco could cost the party over 50 winnable seats across 16 local government areas. Public sentiment has turned critical, with some comments playfully deriding the party as a “child’s play clown.”

Additionally, some candidates whose nominations were missed are contemplating a class action against the NSW Liberal Party for lost potential earnings. Human rights lawyer George Newhouse has confirmed that several council candidates have approached him seeking to sue the party for compensation. Those individuals are now suffering greatly because of the mishandling by the Liberal Party head office,” he said.

Due to an oversight by the Liberal Party, the following 14 council, ward, and mayoral elections will proceed without contest:

Berrigan

Cobar

Cowra

Greater Hume – East Ward

Junee

Lachlan – Wards A, B, D and E

Lockhart – Ward A

Murray River – Greater Wakool Ward

Murrumbidgee – Jerilderie and Murrumbidgee East Wards

Penrith – East Ward

Tenterfield – Ward B

Uralla – Mayor, Wards A and B

Warren – Wards A, B and D

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