Time is running out for the Liberal Party to select candidates in a number of key seats, ahead of the federal election.

The process should have finished months ago, but internal battles within the party have caused significant delays.

And there are allegations that one senior minister - close to the Prime Minister - may be holding up the process to deliberately engineer a crisis. 

Today, chief political correspondent for The Saturday Paper, Karen Middleton on the power struggle within the Liberal Party that is threatening their re-election chances.

Guest: Chief political correspondent for The Saturday Paper, Karen Middleton.

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