The Greens have been unable to decide who will lead them in the next Assembly despite meeting to resolve the issue yesterday.
Emerging from Saturday's ACT election holding three seats and the balance of power in the Legislative Assembly, the party refused requests for an interview after meeting behind closed doors yesterday.
The Canberra Times understands the Greens' three Members-elect Shane Rattenbury, Meredith Hunter and Amanda Bresnan met for about four hours yesterday to discuss the party's leadership and their strategy for negotiations with the two major parties. Greens spokesman Tom Burmester said the discussions were set to continue.
The indecision over leadership comes before expected negotiations with Labor and Liberal representatives to decide which party will win the Greens' backing to form a minority government.
The party said it would meet representatives from the ALP sometime this afternoon and would hold a meeting with the Liberals tomorrow morning.
Both the Liberals and Labor Party have said nothing will be off the table in negotiations, including the possibility of a cabinet post for one of the Greens. But uncertainty about who will be the party leader may delay those negotiations.
Both of the would-be chief ministers have spruiked their claims for the Greens' support.
Labor leader Jon Stanhope claimed victory and said Saturday's result had shown his party was clearly the public's choice, despite a 9 per cent swing against it. He said the Labor Party had received the most votes, and had outpolled the Liberals on a two-party-preferred basis.
''We have won this election. The people of Canberra have invested in us the responsibility for governing the community for the next four years,'' Mr Stanhope said.
He and his deputy, Katy Gallagher, will constitute the Labor team to meet the three Greens representatives.
Mr Stanhope said he was confident a resolution would be reached soon. ''I don't see it so much as a negotiation meeting, I'm not sure what there is to negotiate,'' he said.
Liberal leader Zed Seselja said Mr Stanhope's comments were spurious. ''I think they're very presumptuous for someone who suffered a very big swing against him personally. He seems to have learnt nothing from the election result.
''It says he's absolutely taking them for granted: he sees them [the Greens] as proxy Labor votes.''
The Liberal leader said the majority of voters had heeded the Chief Minister's advice when he warned that any vote swing away from Labor could see a Liberal government, with only 37 per cent of voters indicating they wanted another Labor government. Mr Seselja said thousands of voters had selected candidates who had run with an anti-Stanhope message.
But he said both sides would need to accept the reality of a minority government. ''People clearly have voted for a power-sharing arrangement: they haven't overwhelmingly endorsed for a major party and that's how we are progressing.''
Updated results from the Australian Electoral Commission have not changed the likely make-up of the Assembly, suggesting a 7-7-3 split as first predicted.
Molonglo appears to be the closest contest with the Liberals and Greens contesting the final seat. The Liberals currently hold 2.5 quotas to the Greens 1.5, before preferences.