Julian Assange, founder of the WikiLeaks Party of Australia, hoped that his party would poll enough votes to cause him to be elected to the Australian Senate. If he were elected to the Australian Senate, his chances of leaving the Ecuador embassy in London (where he is a virtual prisoner) would have been enhanced.

Under Australia’s propotional representation system for Senate elections, it is somewhat plausible that he could have been elected to the Senate, if he had kept peace within the party he founded. However, as this story explains, the party is in disarray because Assange made decisions for the party behind the back of the party’s officers.