Julian
Assange to run for Senate
31
January, 2013
Julian
Assange will run for a Senate seat in the 2013 federal election and
his mum reckons he'll be awesome.
Christine
Assange confirmed her son's candidacy on Wednesday after WikiLeaks
tweeted the news.
"He
will be awesome," she said.
"In
the House of Representatives we get to choose between US lackey party
number one and US lackey party number two - between the major
parties.
"So
it will be great to 'Assange" the Senate for some Aussie
oversight."
Queensland-born
Assange, who founded the secret-leaking website WikiLeaks, announced
his Senate ambition last December from Ecuador's London embassy.
He
sought refuge there last June in a bid to avoid extradition to
Sweden.
Mr
Assange fears if he goes to Sweden to be questioned over rape
allegations, authorities will allow him to be extradited to the US to
be questioned over WikiLeaks' release of thousands of US diplomatic
cables.
He
said last year he would run as a Senate candidate under a
yet-to-be-formed WikiLeaks party banner and was recruiting others to
stand with him.
The
election will be held on September 14
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