WA Wikileaks candidate pulls out of Senate race

ABC Gerry Georgatos has withdrawn from the Senate election days after replacing Julian Assange.

There has been another change to the Wikileaks Party team for the WA Senate election after Julian Assange was ruled out and the endorsed candidate pulled out.

This week, Gerry Georgatos was announced as the lead candidate after Mr Assange was not allowed to run.

But following a media story which detailed Mr Georgatos' belief convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby was innocent of trying to take cannabis into Bali in 2004, he withdrew from the race.

He says he decided to pull out for "personal reasons" and denies it has anything to do with the fact he believes Corby is innocent.

Mr Georgatos also says the party has backed his stance.

Everyone on the Wikileaks national council has been supportive of me on that [support of Schapelle Corby's innocence], Mr Georgatos said.

He said he would have preferred that Julian Assange, the original choice, be the lead candidate but the party was recently told by the AEC that he was ineligible to run.

Mr Georgatos, a long time social justice campaigner, courted controversy when he ran for the Senate last year and decided the WA Wikileaks branch would go it alone on preferences.

He directed preferences to the Nationals rather than the Greens despite Senator Scott Ludlams strong support for Wikileaks and Julian Assange.

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WA Wikileaks candidate pulls out of Senate race