Victorian MP Moira Deeming has temporarily won an eleventh-hour bid to remain as a Liberal candidate at this year’s state election.

Moira Deeming will be invited to speak on her own behalf at a meeting of her party’s state executive, where she could be removed as a candidate.

The embattled MP is pursuing legal action to stop the party’s state executive from dumping her as a candidate.

The embattled MP will appear in court on Friday morning, hours before the party was due to decide whether she should remain a candidate for November’s state election.

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The Liberal Party has agreed not to disendorse Deeming until she has her final day in court, but their relationship is over.

Victorian MP Moira Deeming has temporarily won an eleventh-hour bid to remain as a Liberal candidate at this year’s state election.