One Nation Drops Preston Candidate Franco Guardiani Over Social Media Posts
One Nation Victoria has disendorsed Franco Guardiani as its candidate for the Preston electorate in Melbourne, withdrawing its endorsement after posts from his social media accounts came to light. The party became aware of the posts on Tuesday morning and removed him shortly afterwards, Guardian Australia reported.
Among the posts, Guardiani replied "GOAT" to an X post asking people to describe Hitler in one word. Another post from his account claimed that "importing Islam is making pedophilia legal." Guardiani confirmed to Guardian Australia that the posts were his.
One Nation Victoria is led by Warren Pickering. Nathan Lambert, the Labor MP for Preston and Reservoir, had called on One Nation to disendorse Guardiani.
The party has also disendorsed a separate candidate. One Nation dropped its Melbourne candidate Matthew Collins over social media comments about sexual consent and pornographic jokes, comments that have since been deleted.
