The ACT Assembly's final sitting fortnight before the October election has been thrown into chaos after Opposition Leader Zed Seselja announced he will move a motion of no confidence in Chief Minister Katy Gallagher.
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Mr Seselja will today give the required seven days notice of his bid to remove Ms Gallagher from the chief ministership due to her ''repeated, serious failings'' in the health portfolio.
The Greens will vote against the resolution, guaranteeing Ms Gallagher's survival in the top job.
Under Assembly rules, the chamber will have to adjourn for seven ''clear days'' until the motion is debated.
This will delay consideration of several bills, including proposed changes to civil union laws and compulsory third-party insurance.
Mr Seselja said the Assembly should support the motion and help restore Canberrans' faith in the health system and the integrity of government.
''We believe the health system is in crisis. It's been going backwards under this government from one of the best in the country to the worst,'' he said.
Mr Seselja said Ms Gallagher must accept responsibility for the Canberra Hospital emergency department data doctoring scandal.
He also criticised her for not being more transparent about her relationship with former Canberra Hospital health executive Kate Jackson, who admitted making hundreds of changes to emergency department waiting time performance data.
''In the end the chief minister is responsible for what happens in the health system. She's responsible for the culture that has been built up under her leadership, she's responsible for senior executives - whether she has direct involvement or not.''
Ms Gallagher dismissed the no confidence bid as ''politics, pure and simple''.
The Chief Minister said she had been cleared by the Auditor-General of involvement in the data doctoring affair and denied she had ''failed'' in the health portfolio.
''Go and have a look at the new services that are offered, go and have a look at the new wards, go and have a look at the new women's and children's hospital, go and have a look at the new acute mental health unit,'' Ms Gallagher said.
''Look at the cancer centre coming out of the ground, and then go across town and have a look at all the community health centres that are being opened, things like the new walk-in centre, and then say that's a failure.
''I don't think people would believe that.''
Greens leader Meredith Hunter said the no-confidence motion was a political stunt.
''I don't think it would be a secret to people across Canberra that Zed Seselja doesn't want Katy Gallagher to be chief minister, but he doesn't need to move a motion to show that,'' Ms Hunter said.
''What he does need to be doing is understanding there's an election coming up and if he puts out his vision and his policies and his ideas, that's the way to change the face of ACT politics.
''Unfortunately, what we've seen from the Canberra Liberals is no policy.''
Mr Seselja will give notice of the no-confidence motion after Ms Gallagher makes a formal apology to ACT victims of past forced adoption practices.
Attorney-General and manager of Government Business Simon Corbell said last night that the Assembly would next week sit late on Wednesday and Thursday.
A special sitting would also be held on Friday with no question time and was expected to continue ''very late'' into the night.
Mr Corbell said he believed the next Assembly should reconsider the practice which prevented ''substantive business'' after notice of a no-confidence motion was given and the matter was voted on.
Labor has seven members in the 17-seat Legislative Assembly and governs with the support of four Greens. The Liberals hold six seats.
