By Stephen Johnson For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 22:42 GMT, 26 March 2019 | Updated: 23:01 GMT, 26 March 2019
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A Nationals MP in a marginal seat spent more time in Manila than he did in Parliament for two years in a row after falling in love.
George Christensen, who holds the north Queensland seat of Dawson, spent 72 days in the Philippines capital in both 2016 and 2017.
By comparison, he spent 51 days in Canberra in 2016 and 64 days in the Australian capital in 2017, a Herald-Sun investigation has revealed.
Nationals MP George Christensen (pictured with fiancee April Asuncion) spent 72 days in the Philippines capital in 2016 and 2017
Despite holding his seat by a 3.3 per cent margin at the 2016 election, Mr Christensen has spent 294 days in the Philippines
