Dominic Perrottet has been elected leader of the NSW Liberals and will become the next premier after winning a party room vote.
Dominic Perrottet will be the new NSW Premier after winning the Liberal Party leadership in a landslide.
Mr Perrottet won the party room ballot 39 votes to five, comfortably defeating Planning Minister Rob Stokes.
Stuart Ayres will become his deputy.
“It’s been an honour and an absolute privilege to be elected as the parliamentary leader of the Liberal Party,” Mr Perrottet told reporters after emerging from the party room on Tuesday.
“I really appreciate the trust that my colleagues are putting in me.”
Mr Stokes also spoke to reporters after suffering a resounding loss.
“I always said that I would give people a choice – they have chosen emphatically,” he said.
“Democracy is the winner today. Dom Perrottet will be a magnificent Premier and he has my undivided loyalty and support.
“I will use every ounce of strength in my body to make sure he is re-elected as Premier of NSW when we go to the polls in 2023.”
Asked whether he would like to remain in the cabinet, Mr Stokes said it would be “entirely up to the Premier”.
Health Minister Brad Hazzard offered a philosophical take after emerging from the meeting.
Mr Hazzard said the atmosphere in the room was “good, but obviously sad”, because MPs were mourning the loss of Ms Berejiklian as leader.
“We talked about Gladys, obviously, how sad we all are,” he told NCA NewsWire.
Mr Perrottet’s ascendancy to the top job came after his predecessor Gladys Berejiklian resigned as a result of an anti-corruption investigation into her conduct in office.
Her announcement was followed by an intense weekend of backroom wrangling that saw Mr Perrottet amass enough support to feel he could win the vote by Sunday.
As Treasurer, Mr Perrottet was the second-highest ranking Liberal in the NSW parliament. Ms Berejiklian held the same position before she was chosen as Premier in 2017.
The 39-year-old Catholic and father-of-six is the leader of the party’s right faction and was previously the deputy leader of the NSW Liberal Party
The Epping MP lives in northwest Sydney with his wife Helen and children Charlotte, Amelia, Annabelle, William, Harriet and Beatrice.
His choice of having a big family of his own may have been inspired by his own upbringing – Mr Perrottet is the third eldest of a dozen brothers and sisters.
Mr Perrottet studied law at Sydney University and worked as a lawyer before he was elected to the NSW parliament in 2011.
Mr Perrottet graduated from Redfield College, a Catholic school that has an Opus Dei priest as its chaplain, and has said his politics are partly influenced by his Christian faith.
“It’s certainly part of who I am (politically), it inspires me to try and make a difference,” he told a Catholic podcast last year.
In a statement on Friday, he said Ms Berejiklian’s departure was “an incredibly sad day for NSW”.
“The interests of the people of NSW must always come first, and the priority for the government is to ensure we continue to keep people safe, and that we reopen the economy and get people back to work, kids back to school, and life back to normal as fast as possible,” Mr Perrottet said.
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