The NSW Nationals leader, Andrew Stoner, has ruled out running for the federal seat of Lyne because he hopes to be deputy premier in a state Coalition government in 2011.
Mr Stoner had considered a move to federal politics after the announcement that his National Party colleague, the former deputy prime minister Mark Vaile, was retiring from Parliament, forcing a byelection in his Mid-North Coast seat.
But Mr Stoner said yesterday he would remain in state politics. "My priority remains to bring about a change of government in NSW," he said.
"I want to be part of the new leadership of NSW."
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