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Mr Besseling has been the popularly elected Mayor of the Port Macquarie Hastings Council since September 2012 and was formerly the Independent State MP for Port Macquarie.
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I've come ... to support Peter Besseling because I think he's the pick of the candidates for the state seat of Port Macquarie.
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"Certainly there are a lot of people who are very disappointed with Rob Oakeshott's move to install a minority Labor government, so I guess there is a possibility that may have some impact on Peter's campaign," she said.
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