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Green Party MP Chlöe Swarbrick praised the “phenomenal” turnout ahead of a youth rally in Auckland City today.
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The Auckland Central candidate said the rally is about “continuing to remind people how powerful they are.”
The Auckland Central candidate said the political party is having “a small rally” to celebrate Auckland going to alert level 1.
The rally will bring together “people from across the spectrum in Auckland Central and those who want to travel to talk about the things that matter,” Swarbrick said.
The group will then “ride a school bus on foot, in the greenest way possible” before casting their votes.
Swarbrick said the green campaign for the Auckland Central seat has been “taking everything out of every second.”
“We know that we have to invest approximately 1500 votes of [Labour’s Auckland Central candidate Helen White] to myself to win and we are doing everything possible so that young people also vote ”, she said.
“On the ground, things feel great … It will also be a matter of keeping reminding people how powerful they are, so that’s what we’re doing.”
Swarbrick said there has been not only an early voting acceptance, but also a “staggering increase, a doubling, of foreign voters casting their special votes.”
“I really hope that, if anything, the positive side of this Covid-19 experience that unites our communities, has shown people that we are as strong as the most vulnerable, that there is a real importance in thinking about the social hiring and between us when we are going to cast those votes, so I hope we get a bigger voter turnout than we usually get. “
Greens co-leader James Shaw said he suspects early voter turnout is because people already “made a decision a couple of years ago” about who they would vote for before the decision to delay the general election was made. one month until October 17.
More than 700,000 people have voted as of Friday, and another 300,000 are expected to vote today.
