Assange not running at new Australian election

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Senatorial escape route scuttled by eligibility requirements
By Simon Sharwood
31 Mar 2014

... The part-time Ecuadorian ran as a candidate for The Wikileaks Party at Australia's general election last year, hoping to win a Senate seat in the State of Victoria. Doing so probably would not have allowed him safe passage from Ecuador’s London embassy, but might have given him some new legal arguments to pursue.

A second candidacy was raised as a possibility after the Senate election was botched in the State of Western Australia. Last November, the Wikileaks Party announced it would once again seek to install Assange as its main candidate for any re-run election ...

But Assange is not on the ballot paper because, says Wikileaks Party's campaign manager Gerry Georgatos, Australia's Electoral Commission deemed he is ineligible to run ...

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1. The article claims he's not eligible, but he is...

About the only good thing about that poorly written article was the author helpfully linked to Section 44 of the Constitution. Julian Assange meets all those requirements to run for Parliament. If he didn't register with the AEC in time, that's got nothing to do with that bit of the Constitution...

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2. Reporting has been contradictory:

... Gerry Georgatos was endorsed by the WikiLeaks national council on Tuesday night after the party was notified by the Australian Electoral Commission that Mr Assange was not eligible to contest in WA as he had not spent enough time in the state in past six years ...
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