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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJulian Assange Launches Australian Senate Bid Under WikiLeaks Party
Julian Assange Launches Australian Senate Bid Under WikiLeaks Party
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange announced Thursday that he'll be running for a seat in the Australian Senate later this year under the banner of his newly inaugurated WikiLeaks Party, the New York Times reported.
My plans are to essentially parachute in a crack troop of investigative journalists into the Senate and to do what we have done with WikiLeaks, in holding banks and government and intelligence agencies to account, Assange told the Times in a phone interview.
Assange said he's confident he'll be able to campaign out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has taken asylum for the past year in order to avoid extradition to Sweden on sexual assault allegations.
There is, of course, some possibility that the Australian Senate would permit remote involvement. Its never been done before, but it is theoretically possible, Assange said of Australia's law requiring him to take up the Senate seat within a year if elected. But in any event we have candidates available to hold the seat until such time as I am available to take it.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/julian-assange-launches-australian-senate-bid-under-wikileaks
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange announced Thursday that he'll be running for a seat in the Australian Senate later this year under the banner of his newly inaugurated WikiLeaks Party, the New York Times reported.
My plans are to essentially parachute in a crack troop of investigative journalists into the Senate and to do what we have done with WikiLeaks, in holding banks and government and intelligence agencies to account, Assange told the Times in a phone interview.
Assange said he's confident he'll be able to campaign out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has taken asylum for the past year in order to avoid extradition to Sweden on sexual assault allegations.
There is, of course, some possibility that the Australian Senate would permit remote involvement. Its never been done before, but it is theoretically possible, Assange said of Australia's law requiring him to take up the Senate seat within a year if elected. But in any event we have candidates available to hold the seat until such time as I am available to take it.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/julian-assange-launches-australian-senate-bid-under-wikileaks
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Julian Assange Launches Australian Senate Bid Under WikiLeaks Party (Original Post)
ProSense
Jul 2013
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Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)1. Good that with that!
dionysus
(26,467 posts)2. is this a joke?
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)3. Ancient news, and he's doing very well, btw.
Did you just find this out now, lol! He launched his candidacy months ago.