While Queensland Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls continues to claim his party could still form government, Labor is engaged in a backroom brawl over who will be treasurer in the next term.
Labor is yet to formally secure a majority following Saturday's state election, but it is still the most likely party to be able to govern.
Treasurer Curtis Pitt is understood to be on the chopping block after a lacklustre performance during the election campaign, however the party's Left and Right factions are now squabbling over who would take over.
Deputy premier and prominent Left member Jackie Trad has been put forward but Health Minister and member of Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk's Right faction, Cameron Dick, has also been named by senior government sources as a contender.
Dumping Mr Pitt would go against Ms Palaszczuk's public promise during the election campaign she would keep him in the job.
"Yes I do guarantee his job," she said in response to questions about Mr Pitt's performance.
If Mr Pitt were to be kept as treasurer, another senior minister would likely be appointed finance minister to help him sell the government's economic messages.
Mr Nicholls on Thursday said the jostling for cabinet positions among Labor MPs amid an ongoing vote count was a demonstration of their "arrogance".
"The Labor party, in their arrogance, are trying to divvy up the spoils even though we don't have an election outcome," he told reporters on the Gold Coast.
Despite the LNP only having secured 38 seats compared to Labor's 46 on Thursday afternoon, Mr Nicholls insisted his party was "still in the hunt".
"I'm simply saying that the Labor party are not yet in a position - despite the arrogance of the claims on Sunday that they were going to win 47 - to do so," he said.
Mr Nicholls again called on Ms Palaszczuk to stick to her election promise not to do any deals with minor parties or independents if Labor fell short of the 47 seats it needed for a majority in the 93-seat parliament.
Ms Palaszczuk made no public appearances on Thursday for the third day in a row.
The premier refused to take media questions on Monday, during a public display of still being in charge, and took a meeting with the Local Government Association of Queensland in the Executive Building.
Labor is sweating on a handful of marginal seats, including Macalister and Gaven, going its way to get to the 47-seat mark and beyond, with just over 80 per cent of the votes counted.
