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Current independent MLC Frank Pangallo will move to the Liberal party and has been announced as their candidate for Waite in 2026.
@James good luck to him but it’s going to be a mountain to climb. It’s an inner city seat that’s painted red all over it and in a Labor landslide year no one seriously expects Waite to be in play.
Pangallo’s record is being a centrist, moderate independent, which is the furthest thing from the SA Liberal party at the moment. If he wanted to be successful he might as well run as an independent and he’d have a better chance.
I think that if Frank Pangallo wanted to stay parliament, he should’ve run as an independent for the LC or sought preselection for the Liberal LC ticket.
Agree Tommo, Frank Pangello during his previous stint as an MLC representing Nick Xenophon’s SA BEST party was seen as a centrist/moderate and he would be a good fit to run as a teal independent for Waite.
Not sure if former Liberal and then Independent MP for this seat Martin Hamilton Smith was also a moderate, ‘wet’ faction Liberal. He was quite hostile to the hardcore conservative faction of the Liberals and whilst his decision to step down from the Liberals and become a Labor supporting Independent was partly strategic on his part, it also had to do with his personal views more aligning with Labor rather than the Liberals.