Following the close of nominations for election candidates on Tuesday 3 March 2009, the Daylight Saving for South East Queensland Party (DS4SEQ) has announced that it will field 32 candidates at the election on March 21.
In a media release [link to .pdf], DS4SEQ expresses delight at the number of candidates who nominated. From the media release:
“The electorates to be contested are within the South East Queensland region and extend from the Gold Coast throughout Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast and as north as Hervey Bay. We believe this to be a fantastic feat, given that DS4SEQ has only been a political party for 3 months.”
The party is promoting itself as “a party for all of Queensland”, not just for the South-East portion of the state, and feels that its policy “is a compromise that respects the needs of regional and rural Queenslanders, while also giving fair consideration to the view of the majority of residents in South East Queensland.”
With regard to how the party recommends voters fill out their voting cards, DS4SEQ is not running a ‘Just Vote One’ campaign. Voters are urged to vote 1 for DS4SEQ and then preference the other candidates in their electorate based on their personal choice.
The full list of candidates is here.
The blog of DS4SEQ Party Leader, Jason Furze, is here.
You can interact with DS4SEQ on social networking site, Twitter, here.
