{"id":389380,"date":"2026-03-19T15:31:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T05:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=389380"},"modified":"2026-03-19T15:31:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T05:31:44","slug":"victorian-premier-jacinta-allan-dismisses-labor-leadership-challenge-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=389380","title":{"rendered":"Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan Dismisses Labor Leadership Challenge Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reports claim factional powerbrokers in Labor&#8217;s Left and Right wings are eyeing a leadership spill ahead of the November 28 state election, citing Allan&#8217;s low approval rating of minus 33 percent and fears of losing up to 20 seats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Internal polling shows Labor&#8217;s primary vote at around 28-29 percent, trailing One Nation and neck-and-neck with the Coalition, amid voter fatigue from 12 years in power, record $160 billion debt, and scandals like CFMEU issues on Big Build projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Potential replacements <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=gabrielle-williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Gabrielle Williams\">Gabrielle Williams<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=ben-carroll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Ben Carroll\">Ben Carroll<\/a> denied ambitions and voiced full support, as did other ministers, while Allan insists her team remains united and focused on families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internal polling shows Labor&#8217;s primary vote at around 28-29 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":302365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35],"tags":[8634,8],"class_list":["post-389380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","tag-jacinta-allan","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389381,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389380\/revisions\/389381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/302365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}