Sydney’s long-serving Lord Mayor Clover Moore has apologised after a rival council candidate accused a volunteer of pulling down corflutes.
In a video posted to social media, City of Sydney councillor Yvonne Weldon claimed volunteers from Ms Moore’s team had removed banners outside the National Centre for Indigenous Excellence on the morning of Saturday’s local government elections.
The post claimed Ms Weldon’s volunteers had discovered their posters were removed and replaced with a large banner.
“Our corflutes had been pulled down and were found in his car when we arrived,” the post read.
“We understand this is an important day for all candidates, but this type of behaviour in unacceptable.”
Responding to the video, Ms Moore apologised and said the issue was rectified.
“Sorry, this absolutely should not have happened,” she said.
“I’m told the volunteer was instructed to rectify and replace immediately.”
Ms Weldon, an independent councillor, was first elected to Sydney Council at the last election.
“I’ve seen a lot of it this time, I saw a lot of it last time. It’s not right,” she said.
On Saturday, millions of New South Wales voters will head to the polls to elect members for their local government area for the next four years.
Elections have been axed entirely in 14 council areas due to a lack of candidates. These areas have been declared uncontested areas and candidates will be elected unopposed.
The NSW council elections have been marred by a “monumental stuff up” which saw 140 Liberal candidates across 16 councils miss out on nomination due to a shocking administrative error.
Polling stations will close on Saturday at 6pm.
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