With a mix of new and familiar faces battling it out in the five wards, the most contested will be Roselands where 30 candidates from Our Local Community, Labor, Community Voice Of Australia, Animal Justice Party, The Greens, Libertarian Party, Liberal and Independents, will be vying for votes.
ALMOST 100 candidates will be vying for your vote at the Canterbury Bankstown Local Government election on Saturday, September 14.
The candidates are:
Bankstown
Group A Libertarian Party (formerly Liberal Democrats), Vanessa Hadchiti (Mount Lewis), Roy El Kazzi (Punchbowl), Kristofer Seremetkoski (Padstow); Group B Liberal, George Zakhia (Condell Park), Phan Long (Yagoona), Selina Akhter (Wiley Park); Group C Independent, Mahmoud Hussein (Lakemba), Yasmeen Shadid (Punchbowl), Michel Antonios Tawk (Greenacre); Group D Community Voice Of Australia, Amer El-adib (Condell Park), Mohammad Somon Kabir (Bankstown), Yousef Abu-samen (Greenacre); Group E The Greens, Syed Mustafa Abrar Ahmad (Bankstown), Nahed Fraitekh (Bankstown), John Ky (Bankstown); Group F Labor, Bilal El-Hayek (Greenacre), Khal Asfour (Greenacre), Erika Lam (Yagoona).
Bass
Hill
Group A Labor, Rachelle Harika (Yagoona), Christopher James Cahill (Yagoona), Ayman Awad (Revesby); Group B Community Voice Of Australia, Saud Abu-samen (Greenacre), Allan Winterbottom (Condell Park), Huzaifa Khan (Bass Hill); Group C Libertarian Party (formerly Liberal Democrats), Elvis Sinosic (Georges Hall), John Hadchiti (Mount Lewis), Wissam Ibrahim (Georges Hall); Group D Independent Talal Saifo (Yagoona), Nabil Omari (Lakemba), Doha-donna Elomari (Lakemba).
Canterbury
Group A Independent, Christine Barakat (Galston), Waroud Dargham (Campsie), George Daibes (Greenacre); Group B Unity, Carol Xie (Belmore), Chuan-hui Huang (Panania), Bei Zhong (Narwee); Group C Labor, Clare Raffan (Campsie), Con Vaitsas (Ashbury), Louis Pan (Belfield); Group D Independent, Barbara Coorey (Belmore), Aliki Xanthakos (Canterbury), Stephen Haran (Campsie); Group E Libertarian Party (formerly Liberal Democrats), Joshua Moore (Hurlstone Park), Julie Morkos Douaihy (Punchbowl); Group F The Greens, Conroy Blood (Canterbury), Linda Eisler (Hurlstone Park), Bradley Schott (Earlwood); Ungrouped Independent, Martin Vella (Earlwood).
Revesby
Group A The Greens, Natalie Hanna (Revesby Heights), Kath Jordan (Picnic Point), Ned Cutcher (Greenacre); Group B Community Voice Of Australia, Alwalid Al-miziab (Bankstown), Hicham Arabi (Lakemba), Rizwan Arif (Wiley Park); Group D Libertarian Party (formerly Liberal Democrats), Marika Momircevski (Padstow), George Trousas (Padstow), Mario Azar (Panania); Group E Liberal, Wendy Lindsay (Padstow), Jennifer Walther (Picnic Point), Richard Noonan (Picnic Point); Group F Australian Democrats (NSW), Phillip Pearce (Revesby), Phan Nguyen (Revesby), Garry Dalrymple (Earlwood); Ungrouped Independent, Marlene Marquez-obeid (Revesby).
Roselands
Group A Our Local Community, Harry Stavrinos (Belmore), Raymond Moujalli (Greenacre), Maria Difrancesco (Roselands); Group B Labor, Khodr Saleh (Punchbowl), Sherin Akther (Lakemba), Hady Saleh (Punchbowl); Group C Community Voice Of Australia, Solaiman Hossain (Punchbowl), Faizun Pally (Condell Park), Sameer Mahmud (Punchbowl); Group D Independent, Ali Shikder (Greenacre), Rachael Pickering (Lakemba); Group E Animal Justice Party, Dorlene Tony Abou-haidar (Punchbowl), Louise Ward (Hurlstone Park), Brad Stafford (Hurlstone Park); Group F Independent, Rana Sharif (Lakemba), Taher Shaikh Mohammed (Greenacre), Mohammed Elsadig (Lakemba); Group G The Greens, Anisha Gautam (Campsie), Shilpa Rajkumar (Campsie), Zoe Mcclure (Canterbury); Group H Libertarian Party (formerly Liberal Democrats), Mark Smaling (Narwee), Carmel Nicholls (Picnic Point), Raymond O’Reilly (Panania); Group I Independent, Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman (Lakemba), Maria Mostain (Lakemba), Fahmida Khandakur (Lakemba), Rakibul Alam (Lakemba); Group J Liberal, Mohammad Zaman (Wiley Park), Sazeda Akter (Wiley Park); Ungrouped, Imad Kadeh (Lakemba).
