Peter Georgiou

Panagiotis "Peter" Georgiou is an Australian politician, currently serving as a Senator for Western Australia. He was the second candidate on the Senate ticket for Pauline Hanson's One Nation party in the 2016 Australian federal election. The lead candidate on the ticket was Rod Culleton, Georgiou's brother-in-law. Culleton was declared to have been elected to the Senate when the writs were returned, however the High Court, sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns ruled on 3 February 2017 that Culleton had been ineligible to be elected at the time of the election. A consequence of this ruling was that the ballots underwent a special count discounting Culleton's position on the paper, and Georgiou was elected in his place. Georgiou was sworn in as a Senator on 27 March 2017.