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By AFP
SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull faced a second challenge on Thursday with the man who wants his job to call for a Liberal Party meeting.
Minister Peter Dutton, considered an uncompromising Conservative, said he was confident that he now had the numbers needed to overthrow Turnbull, considered a moderate.
"Earlier this morning, I called the Prime Minister of the party room no longer supported his leadership," he said in a brief statement.
"As such, I asked him to call a meeting of the Liberal Party during which I "
Turnbull survived a poll Tuesday, winning the vote 48-35.
He has not yet publicly responded to the latest threat to his reign, although the ABC chain
To impose the problem, Dutton must produce a petition signed by a majority of ministers, essentially saying that They no longer believed in the direction of Turnbull.
Local media widely reported that such a petition was
The unrest reached its climax after months of poor opinion polls and a revolt of liberal political colleagues Monday against the Prime Minister's plans to set targets for carbon emissions.
Dutton left his office after failing for the first time, with at least nine other ministers proposing to follow him.
Turnbull has so far only accepted two resignations.
Agitation is the last chapter of a turbulent decade for Australian politics, with no leader having served his sentence since John Howard lost the 2007 election.
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