{"id":31238,"date":"2016-04-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/expect-an-election-announcement-this-week\/"},"modified":"2016-04-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T00:00:00","slug":"expect-an-election-announcement-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/expect-an-election-announcement-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Expect an election announcement this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>FIVEAA\u2019s Canberra correspondent Michael Pachi says we can bet on a double dissolution election on 2 July, and that an announcement will be made this week.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI think that that\u2019s absolutely right,\u201d Pachi told Leon Byner on FIVEAA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that you\u2019ll find that by the end of this week the Prime Minister will formally announce a double dissolution election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pachi said he expected that the Prime Minister \u201ccome Thursday, potentially Friday, he\u2019ll hold a news conference saying because the ABCC legislation has failed we\u2019ll all be going to the polls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll be on July 2.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN TO MICHAEL PACHI HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/259605837&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Pachi explained that the \u201cprorogued\u201d parliament essentially meant that parliament has been stopped mid-term and restarted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat they\u2019re doing is dealing with a specific issue, and in this case it is the reinstallation of the ABCC \u2013 the building and construction watchdog.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut what we know is that Labor and the Greens do not support the reinstallation of this organisation, and the government simply doesn\u2019t have enough of the crossbenchers or independents to help get this legislation through,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation\u2019s failure would act as Mr Turnbull\u2019s trigger for a double dissolution election, said Pachi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/bicycle-hit-and-run-victim-contradicts-stephen-mullighan\">BICYCLE HIT-RUN VICTIM WANTS AN APOLOGY FROM MINISTER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/sam-newman-clears-up-his-latest-controversy\">SAM NEWMAN SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON LATEST CONTROVERSY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIVEAA\u2019s Canberra correspondent Michael Pachi says we can bet on a double dissolution election on 2 July, and that an announcement will be made this week. \u201cI think that that\u2019s absolutely right,\u201d Pachi told Leon Byner on FIVEAA. \u201cI think that you\u2019ll find that by the end of this week the Prime Minister will formally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-31238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leon-byner","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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