The race for a seat on the City of Mandurah council began just last week but already a former One Nation candidate has brushed off comments he made about gay marriage, while a former WA Party candidate has defended his comments on immigration.

Almost a decade before resurfacing as a One Nation candidate in this year’s State and Federal elections, Fernando Bove quit his job as a school teacher, warning that programs supporting LGBTQI students would throw children into “moral chaos”.

On Thursday, he was revealed as one of the candidates running against current councillor Peter Jackson in the North ward.

In a story published by the Mandurah Mail in 2016, Mr Bove linked rising youth self-harm to gender confusion, opposed the idea that teens could explore their sexuality, and said Safe Schoo

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