Jacinta Allan will be Victoria's next premier, replacing Daniel Andrews and becoming the state's second female leader.
Source:Jacinta Allan is the new premier-elect of Victoria and the man who wanted to challenge her for the title will be deputy.
Allan ran for leader of the Victorian Labor Party at a caucus meeting on Wednesday after Daniel Andrews' The Bendigo East MP will be Victoria's second female leader and the first Labor premier from regional Victoria in almost 100 years.Allan entered parliament in 1999 and became the youngest minister in the state's history at 29.
She took over as Andrews' deputy and presumed successor in June 2022 and most recently served as minister for transport infrastructure and the suburban rail loop project.Allan lives in Bendigo with her husband and two children.But Allan emerged from the meeting with the numbers to become premier, avoiding the matter going to a vote by membership.
"All positions have been elected unopposed," Box Hill MP and the party's returning officer Paul Hamer told reporters.The new ministerial cabinet spot left by Andrews' departure will be filled by Eltham MP Vicki Ward.
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