Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Sunday she was "very confident" of surviving a leadership challenge from Kevin Rudd the man she deposed calling on Labor to unite whatever the outcome.
Rudd, ousted as prime minister in a shock June 2010 party-room coup, will face Gillard in a secret Labor ballot for the leadership Monday after dramatically resigning as foreign minister in a bid for the top job.
Gillard said she was "very confident of the strong support of my colleagues" and called on her center-left ruling party to accept the decision and leave their divisions behind.
"I believe Labor, every one of us, will unite after Monday's ballot. We will unite tomorrow and we will get our shoulders to the wheel delivering Labor's program and plans," Gillard told reporters.
"The important thing is that tomorrow's ballot ends this there is a result and following that result everyone accepts it and unites and gets on with the job and I am absolutely confident that will happen."
Rudd came to power in a 2007 election landslide which ended more than a decade of conservative rule, but a series of policy mis-steps saw him lose the confidence of party chiefs and he was axed for the more pragmatic Gillard.
Though he is widely expected to lose Monday's run-off, with just 30-35 votes in the 103-member caucus, Rudd said he had the backing of a number of top cabinet ministers and urged his colleagues to remember his achievements.
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