أستراليا: الأحزاب تتجاهل مرشح المسلمين بالانتخابات الفيدرالية

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أكد السيد "قيصر تراد" - رئيس الجمعية الإسلامية بمدينة "سيدني" الأسترالية أنه بعد مفاوضات استمرت بضعة أشهر مع الحزب الليبرالي وحزب العمال لترشيحه في الانتخابات الفيدرالية لتمثيل المسلمين - لم يتلقَ سوى التجاهل.

وقد أكد في تصريحاته أنه أراد أن يزيد من تمثيل المسلمين بالحزبين، والفوز بمقعد فيدرالي يدعم مصالح المسلمين والمجتمع الذي يمثله، وهذا إضافة إلى خدمة المجتمع العام أيضًا.

وقد علق "كوري برناردي" - زعيم الحزب الليبرالي - على تلك التصريحات بتأكيد أن السيد "تراد" لديه مشكلة تُؤرِّق الحزب، خاصةً مما يتعلق بالشريعة ومواقفه الإسلامية.

ولكن رد "تراد" على ذلك مؤكدًا انتماء المسلمين لمصالح المجتمع وللمجتمع كأفراد به، وأنه يرغب في تصحيح الصورة المغلوطة عن الإسلام بالانضمام والعمل مع تلك الأحزاب؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Sydney Muslim community leader Keysar Trad sounds out Labor, Liberals for federal seat

Sydney Muslim community leader Keysar Trad says he has spoken with both Labor and the Liberals about running for Federal Parliament, but neither has given him the nod.

Mr Trad has told the ABC he was in eight months of negotiations with the Labor Party before the last federal election, but they went nowhere.

But a senior Labor source says the talks were aimed at discouraging him at running as an independent in the Lower House seat of Blaxland, which is held by Labor's Jason Clare.

Mr Trad was invited to join Labor and continue making a contribution from within the party.

But Mr Trad did not take up the invitation, and says he is now interested in seeking preselection from the Liberal Party to run in the Senate.

"I haven't joined any political party, however I would not discount the possibility of one day joining a party," Mr Trad told the ABC.

"I've raised the issue with improving the community's representations with both parties, but they've made no promises.

"I've had a couple of casual discussions with Liberal figures but there are no promises of anything."

He said a Muslim friend active in the Queensland Liberal National Party had talked to him about filling a Senate vacancy in Queensland but "nothing eventuated".

"I'm interested in giving more representation for my community, for me my preference is federal, my preference is an Upper House seat," he said.

Mr Trad said he supported socially progressive policies as well as traditional values.

He said his priority was human rights and he would be at home in either party if they allowed him to continue being outspoken on the issue.

"My ideology is to serve humanity, I'm sort of the harmony between the two [parties]," he said.

But he said if he joined the Liberal Party, his first "stumbling block" would be over the issue of free access to Medicare and the Coalition's proposed fee for GP visits.

"I would be fighting within the party and sending a strong message that Medicare should always be accessible to everybody," he said.