Well after 19 to 20 days after the election, the position was 10-10-5. That is neither party has a clear majority with the leading parties refusing to entertain a coalition with the Greens. Yesterday it was up tothe Governor, ( Peter Underwood) to decide which party was to form a minority government. Today the Greens leader came out and announced that they will support the continuation of the Labor Government, despite not receiving support from them for a coalition. It was a move to really flush out the Governor into making a decision.Hodgman announced that he will not support having a coalition with McKim.
Bartlett has now been commisioned by the Governor to form a minority government and it has to be tested on the floor of the House of Assembly. Now what is going to happen from here? The Greens say they will not support any no-confidence motion in Parliament unless there is corruption of other malfeance. In other words Labor will stay on for now but really are at the mercy of the Greens. No coalition but they do wield some clout. It can't last of course and previous minority governments here in Tasmania have failed. An election is inevitable but probably will be in six to
18 months time. The Greens really do hold the balance of
power but I think would suffer at the polls as would Labor.
I will write more later, when I am not as tired as I am now.
Robin 1245 UTC April 8th 2009
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