Clive Palmer's candidates required to pay $400,000 if they win seat but leave party

Contracts that commit UAP candidates to reimbursing advertising budget designed to avoid repeat of the ‘Jacqui Lambie problem’

Clive Palmer’s United Australia party has taken extraordinary steps to avoid a repeat of the “Jacqui Lambie problem” by getting candidates to sign contracts that require them to return $400,000 in election support if they win a seat but subsequently leave the party.

Jacqui Lambie won a Tasmanian Senate seat as a candidate for Palmer United party in 2013, but after a year resigned and set up the Jacqui Lambie Network. The former rugby league star Glenn Lazarus was also elected to the Senate as a Palmer United party candidate in 2013. He quit the party in 2015 over differences with Palmer and started the Glenn Lazarus Team party.

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