Extraordinary letter reveals embattled Dan Andrews declared 'no confidence' in Labor's Victorian voting rolls before asking the Federal party to step in

Labor's national executive is to step in to clean up the Victorian branch, taking over preselections and appointing two administrators.
Three frontbenchers have been forced out of the Victorian state cabinet over a branch-stacking and infighting scandal.
The national leadership is expected to decide at a Tuesday night video hookup to appoint former premier Steve Bracks and former federal minister Jenny Macklin as administrators to oversee the clean up until the end of January.
Labor's national executive is to step in to clean up the Victorian branch, taking over preselections and appointing two administrators
Labor's national executive is to step in to clean up the Victorian branch, taking over preselections and appointing two administrators
A draft resolution said all voting rights in the Victorian branch would be suspended until 2023 and federal and state preselections would be run by the national executive.
'I have no confidence in the integrity of any voting rolls produced for any internal elections in the Victorian branch,' premier Daniel Andrews wrote to the executive.
'Accordingly, we must suspend those elections and begin a long and critical process of validating each and every member of the Labor Party in Victoria as genuine, consenting and self-funded.'
An initial report on new integrity measures would be due in July while a final report would be submitted in November.
The draft motion said the national executive had asked that new measures ensured that the Victorian branch solely comprised 'genuine, consenting, self-funding party members'.
Mr Andrews earlier said he expected reform.
'I have no confidence in the integrity of any voting rolls produced for any internal elections in the Victorian branch,' premier Daniel Andrews wrote to the executive
'I have no confidence in the integrity of any voting rolls produced for any internal elections in the Victorian branch,' premier Daniel Andrews wrote to the executive
'No one should underestimate my resolve to deal with these issues properly to make sure that we make really significant reform,' he told reporters.
Party powerbroker Adem Somyurek has been banished from Labor after being caught handing over cash and using parliamentary staff to create fake branch members and amass political influence.
Two of his allies - Robin Scott and Marlene Kairouz - have also resigned from the ministry.
The scandal exposed by 60 Minutes threatens to seep through federal Labor ranks.
Even so, there was no mention of Mr Somyurek or the Victorian crisis during a long federal Labor caucus meeting in Canberra on Tuesday.
The factional heavy claimed to be protecting federal MP Anthony Byrne in whose office some of the footage was filmed.
A state Labor MP has called for the Australian Federal Police and ASIO to investigate the covert recordings.
Tim Richardson is concerned, given Mr Byrne is the deputy chair of the powerful parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security.

WHY VICTORIAN LABOR MPS HAVE LOST THEIR PORTFOLIOS: 

ADEM SOMYUREK
* Accused of handing over cash and using parliamentary employees to create fake members to branch stack and amass political power
* Allegations were first aired by 60 Minutes and The Age on Sunday
* There are recordings of him using profanities against colleagues and staff
* Mr Somyurek denies the allegations and wants police to investigate the recordings used in the expose
* Mr Somyurek was sacked from the Victorian ministry on Monday and resigned from Labor before the party could boot him out
* He most recently held the local government portfolio
* In 2014, Mr Somyurek was made a minister only to have him stand down over bullying allegations a year later
* He was reinstated to the ministry in 2018, with Premier Daniel Andrews saying Mr Somyurek had made the case he had changed
* Will now sit in the Legislative Council as an independent for South Eastern Metropolitan Region
* Supports the ALP Right faction
MARLENE KAIROUZ
* Factional ally of Mr Somyurek
* Accused of encouraging staff to take part in the branch stacking with Mr Somyurek, according to secret recordings obtained by The Age
* Assured Mr Andrews on Monday that she had acted appropriately at all times
* After becoming embroiled in the allegations, she resigned from the ministry on Tuesday
* Held various ministerial portfolios of suburban development, local government and consumer affairs, gaming and liquor regulation
* 'I no longer want these matters to be a distraction to the government. They have placed enormous pressure on my family and caused them great distress,' she said in a statement on Tuesday
* Ms Kairouz will continue to serve the electorate of Kororoit
ROBIN SCOTT
* Factional ally of Mr Somyurek
* Mr Scott is accused of having staff involved in the branch stacking
* Stepped down from his ministerial post on Monday
* 'To the extent that these matters relate to my conduct, I look forward to the opportunity to clear my name. I am very confident that the investigative process will do so,' he said in a statement
* Mr Scott will continue to serve the electorate of Preston
Party powerbroker Adem Somyurek has been banished from Labor after being caught handing over cash and using parliamentary staff to create fake branch members and amass political influence
Party powerbroker Adem Somyurek has been banished from Labor after being caught handing over cash and using parliamentary staff to create fake branch members and amass political influence
'We don't know who put those recordings in, we don't know what's been compromised,' he told reporters.
'That's a great concern for our commonwealth and our national security.'
Former senator Stephen Conroy alleged Mr Somyurek intimidated federal Labor MPs including Tim Watts, Julian Hill, Joanne Ryan and Rob Mitchell.
'The intimidation of federal MPs is to be absolutely deplored,' he told Sky News.
Mr Somyurek was also recorded claiming Labor MP Josh Burns relied on his support.
'It's not true and I am my own person in the Labor Party,' Mr Burns told the ABC.
'I think that there are clearly issues, though, that we need to deal with as a party.'
He said an arm's length inquiry was needed to restore trust.
Former Labor leader Bill Shorten says the party thought it had stamped out branch-stacking until the 'shocking and reprehensible' Victorian scandal erupted.
'The party has been trying to clean up branch stacking across Australia and ... well, we thought it had, but clearly it hadn't in Victoria,' he told Nine.
'Every person's credentials need to be checked again. Did they pay for it, their own membership?'

SCANDALS THAT HAVE ROCKED 'CHAIRMAN DAN' ANDREWS' GOVERNMENT: 

ADEM SOMYUREK BULLYING
* In 2014, Mr Somyurek was made small business, innovation, and trade minister after Labor won the election
* In May 2015, he stood down from cabinet after his then-chief of staff Dimity Paul accused Mr Somyurek of bullying, which he denied
* He resigns in July 2015 after an investigation by the Secretary of the Department of Premier and Cabinet
PATCH AND TED
* In November 2016, Steve Herbert, then-member for Northern Victoria and the training and skills minister resigned for using his tax-payer funded driver to chauffeur his two dogs, Patch and Ted, between his Melbourne and Trentham homes
* Mr Herbert told parliament he'd organised for his dogs to be driven without him, but didn't know how many times as the trips weren't logged
* The former MP paid back $192.80 in travel expenses for the trips and donated $1000 to a Woodend animal shelter
* Left parliament in 2017
SECOND HOME ALLOWANCE
* In 2017 former Speaker Telmo Languiller and his deputy Don Nardella were involved in rorting an allowance for country members, prompting their resignations
* Mr Languiller represented Tarneit but claimed the allowance to live in Queenscliff in 2016
* He repaid the $38,000 claimed and did not recontest the election
* Mr Nardella claimed the allowance since 2010, first living in Ballarat and later in seaside Ocean Grove
* He initially quit the Labor Party rather than agree to Premier Daniel Andrews' demand to pay back $98,000
* Mr Nardella later agreed to a payment plan that includes regular deductions and a $16,000 lump sum
* The scandal resulted in the creation of the tribunal meant to take pay issue out of the control of MPs themselves
ROBIN SCOTT
* In April 2019, former Victoria's assistant treasurer paid back $60,000 in allowances he unknowingly received as part of his government pay packet
* The Preston MP received the payments, meant for country MPs who have to stay in Melbourne during parliamentary sittings, between 2014 and 2016
RED SHIRTS
* The Labor party misused $388,000 in parliamentary allowances to pay political campaign staff during the 2014 election
* About 21 past and present Labor MPs breached parliamentary guidelines when staff were diverted to help campaign for members
* The rort was subject a police investigation spanning more than 12 months and no criminal charges were laid
* Despite going into the November 2018 state election with the investigation hanging over its head, Labor returned to power with an increased majority in the lower house
PRINTING CASH FOR STACKS
* Upper House MP Khalil Eideh's electoral office was accused of misusing printing allowances to fund party branch stacking
* A parliamentary-wide audit found questionable invoices, which were referred to the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission and his office office was later shut
* He resigned as deputy president in October 2017, then retired at the 2018 election
* IBAC charged three people - including two former electorate officers - with a total of 13 charges in 2018
* Among those charged, Labor staffer Angela Scarpaci, 28, was sentenced in court in 2019 to a two-year community corrections order after pleading guilty to attempting to pervert the course of justice and perjury over her involvement
JANE GARRETT AND THE CFA
* Former emergency services minister Jane Garrett quit cabinet rather than sign off on a controversial firefighters' union pay deal in 2016
* The same year, she was physically attacked on the street and was also diagnosed with breast cancer
* The former Victorian minister lost her pre-selection bid for the state's upper house, after deciding to leave the marginal seat of Brunswick at the 2018 state election
* She remains in parliament serving the Eastern Victoria electorate in the Legislative Council
ADEM SOMYUREK 2020
* The former local government minister is accused of handing over cash and using parliamentary employees to create fake members to amass political power
* He was the first of three ministers to lose their ministerial portfolios, with Robin Scott and then Marlene Kairouz stepping down
* He was reinstated to the ministry in 2018, after the premier said Mr Somyurek had made a case he'd changed after the 2015 scandal

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