An election candidate claims he’s set to be charged after holding up a controversial sign.

Drew Pavlou was campaigning for the seat of Bennelong with the sign ‘F*** Xi Jinping’.

As a result, he was allegedly abused by several Chinese locals.

BREAKING: I held up a sign saying “Fuck Xi Jinping” while campaigning in the seat of Bennelong in Sydney with our candidate @KyinzomDhongdue and Chinese ultra-nationalists assaulted me and an independent filmmaker. We are at the police station making statement on assault now pic.twitter.com/G4poznR0gg

— Drew Pavlou For Senate (@DrewPavlou) April 30, 2022

Mr Pavlou told Ben Fordham he received a call from a police officer after the incident

“He was implying I had incited the violence somehow by holding up a sign in the middle of Sydney.”

He admits he might not have used the same language on the sign if he had his time again.

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