WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange today officially launched his political party to contest Australian elections this year, saying a victory for this candidates would be akin to planting the country's "best investigative journalists" in the Senate.
Assange, the Australian founder of the whistleblowing website, said the WikiLeaks Party would field seven candidates for upper house Senate seats in the states of New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia.
Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino (R) and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (L) appear at the window of the Ecuadorian embassy in central London on June 16, 2013 where Assange has spent almost a year after seeking political asylum in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning over alleged sex crimes. Patino was expected on June 16 to hold a meeting with Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy during a visit to Britain as the one year anniversary of the founder of the whistleblowing website's stay in the embassy approaches.
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