Politics
Majority rules: Even if it’s Green …
TASMANIAN voters would prefer majority government instead of a hung parliament – even it was a Greens government led by Nick McKim, according to an opinion poll.
The exclusive EMRS poll done for The Examiner last week showed Tasmanians rated any of the minority options below a majority government led by one of the three leaders.
That was despite the past four EMRS surveys – including last week’s – indicating that the state is destined for minority government.
The poll also showed that Greens voters were more likely to support a minority Liberal government backed by Greens MPs than a Labor minority government.
That seems to defy the traditional flow of Greens preferences. In the past 70 per cent have flowed to Labor.
When asked which party should form a minority government with Greens support, 51 per cent of Greens voters surveyed backed the Liberals, to 43 per cent who backed a Labor minority government.
Failing a majority, almost half of all voters polled backed a Liberal minority government propped up by the Greens.
Both Premier David Bartlett and Liberal leader Will Hodgman last night rule out any deals with the Greens.