leadership spill
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English
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Noun
[edit]leadership spill (plural leadership spills)
- (Australian politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant and open for re-election.
- 1976, Laurie Oakes, Crash Through Or Crash: The Unmaking of a Prime Minister, page 41:
- Despite claims by the Snedden forces that the rebels had managed to muster no more than 14 votes for a leadership 'spill', the result in the secret ballot had in fact been very close.
Further reading
[edit]- leadership spill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia