Sports party to slip into Senate HE only secured a handful of primary votes but the Australian Sports Party's Wayne Dropulich looks set to get a spot in the Senate. Thanks to preferences, Mr Dropulich is poised to take the seat of Labor's Louise Pratt but wisely won't claim victory until the Senate count is completed in coming days. The single-issue party, which promotes healthy living through sport, was formed at the beginning of the year and now has little more than the 500 members it needed to become registered. So far, he has 1908 first preference votes, or 0.22 per cent of the vote. Mr Dropulich, who has not previously been a member of any other political party, says there's nothing wrong with the way he's got to where he is. "It's the system that the government's had in place for a long time and every party has the same opportunity to use the system," he told ABC radio. I'm happy if it does fall our way and I'll take great responsibility. Interesting times. I'm really excited. Mr Dropulich said he'd had "one or two phone conversations and emails" with preference broker and Minor Parties Alliance mastermind Glenn Druery. That's really the extent of my contact with him. As far as we were concerned, we only found out about him late in our process. I'd already contacted quite a few of the other parties regarding preferencing and he pretty much gave us the contact details for a lot of the minor parties ... who to speak to. That's really all we got from him. Mr Druery has had a falling out with Australian Independents leader Patricia Petersen, who claims he and the Shooters and Fishers Party cheated her out of a Senate spot by reneging on a preference arrangement they had.