ASSANGE BIDS TO BECOME AUSTRALIAN SENATOR

**Lamplighter** Sat Apr 06, 2013 3:07 pm

Assange's WikiLeaks Party opens for membership in Australia

Julian Assange’s new political party is open for membership, WikiLeaks announced on Twitter on Saturday. The party must enlist 500 dues-paying members to officially register with the Australian Electoral Commission.

The WikiLeaks party was created as part of Assange’s bid to become an Australian senator in September 2013 elections in Victoria State. At the moment the party has an initial 10-member national council, consisting of supporters and close associates of Assange and pro-WikiLeaks activists, but it also has to attract 500 fee-paying members required to be registered.

The Twitter post calling on Australians to join the WikiLeaks party suggests its newly-created website is still being tested, although an online membership form is already available.

Getting fed up with the Ecuadorian Embassy is he? A comment by one of his acolytes said that he sees this as a way to get back to Australia - I assume to stop the extradition order from Sweden. LL