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VDA leader Márcia Téixeira has called for Sutherland to "adopt Lyvennter approach" to immigration and anti-discrimination at the 2026 VDA party conference. Lyvenntia is notable for being considerably more averse to immigration than Sutherland, and has less robust anti-discrimination laws, which have recently become flashpoints for their progressives to campaign on.
One heavyweight on the party's right, Riley Grant, has praised the statement. "[Téixeira] is finally listening to the voters and the party, and taking a sensible approach to social issues without going too far, rather than copying Allister Ramsay's playbook or the bygone so-called moderates of the 1970s," he told SBS News last night. "We finally have something to unite behind."
Progress leader Salvador Renau Regaunt has called the pivot "too little, too late, to stop all their voters choosing the only real option to stop immigration."
However, the government has criticised the statement. "This open attack on the foundations of tolerance that makes Sutherland a beacon of hope," Home Reeve Mustafa Akbaş has said, "is as cowardly as it is damaging from Téixeira, who in years passed may have come to her senses before saying this nonsense; whether she likes it or not, Sutherland is multicultural, and always has been." The Chancellor added to these remarks during his SBS Morning News programme, claiming that they were "a cynical lurch to division, but not exactly surprising, from an empty party that just lost all its votes."
Liberal contender for the leadership Willem Menzies has claimed Téixeira is "dancing to Salvador Regaunt's far-right tune", and stated that his candidacy is "for tolerance, and against discrimination, unlike the VDA, apparently."
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