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The Voluntary Euthanasia Party is a minor political party in Australia co-founded in 2013 by Philip Nitschke to lobby for legislative change to allow voluntary euthanasia in Australia.The party applied to the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) to be registered as a political party on 10 May 2013 the application was assessed on 20 May and the party was registered on 1 June.The party nominated several candidates at the 2013 Australian federal election: six candidates for the Senate (two each in New South Wales the ACT and South Australia); and a candidate for the House of Representatives seat of Solomon in the Northern Territory.