Moira Deeming drops legal case against Victorian Liberal party and makes last-ditch bid to avoid disendorsement
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State MP abandons supreme court challenge, saying her party can now decide whether to pursue mediation or reconvene to disendorse me'
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Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming has dropped legal action against her own party as she seeks to make a last-ditch appeal to avoid being disendorsed before the state election.
Deeming launched an 11th-hour supreme court challenge against the Victorian Liberal party president, Brian Loughnane, on 3 July after she made an assault allegation against former leader Matthew Guy and subsequently rejected calls to apologise after Victoria police determined there was no offence detected".
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