Posted 3/3/2024, 3:33:03 AM
Pesutto's top advisers quit amid leadership pressure
- Two top advisers to Victorian opposition leader John Pesutto have quit - Chief of staff Rodrigo Pintos-Lopez and communications director Nick Johnston resigned
- Departures seen as effort to save Pesutto's leadership amid mounting pressure and rumblings of a challenge
- Johnston privately donated to legal fund for Pesutto's defamation case against former MP Moira Deeming
- Come after complaints to leadership team about operation of Pesutto's office
- Former MP Louise Staley appointed as new chief of staff and Alex Woff as new communications director