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Helen Clark is pointing out the importance of “long-term relationships” in politics as Labor ponder whether to rule alone or re-team with the Green Party.
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Labor got enough votes to rule alone in Saturday’s election, but the Greens want to work together again. Source: 1 NEWS
On Saturday, the Greens won 7.6 percent of the vote and the electorate of Auckland Central, giving them 10 seats in Parliament. However, the Labor Party still has a sufficient majority to rule alone, with 64 seats in a 120-seat parliament.
“The Greens have some very experienced and talented ministers with some very strong and very specific skills that I think would make a good contribution to a future government,” Greens co-leader James Shaw promised since the landslide victory.
But before Jacinda Ardern took the reins, Helen Clark led the Labor Party to victory in 1999, 2002 and 2005, reducing National in 2002 to an even lower percentage of party votes than it plunged on Saturday. night.
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The Labor campaign unleashed a red tsunami across the country, engulfing some of National’s “true blue” constituencies. Source: 1 NEWS
When asked what she would do about the Greens, the former prime minister told TVNZ1’s breakfast this morning that any advice was “free.”
However, he added, “all I would say is that politics needs long-term relationships and to go back to that 2017 result for the National Party when they felt they were robbed, hey, they didn’t build relationships and if you can’t build relationships with other parties cannot be a long-term government. “
Jacinda Ardern and James Shaw. Source: 1 NEWS
“I think that will be a consideration as you think about how you want to proceed now.”
In 2017, National, led by Bill English, received more votes than Labor, but neither had a sufficient majority to rule alone. It all came down to the leader of First New Zealand, Winston Peters, who ultimately decided to form a coalition government with Labor and the Greens.
“They never accepted what happened in 2017, they robbed them of their attitude, and the natural order would reassert itself. Well that’s not really politics, you have to adjust the circumstances and then do your luck accordingly instead of having a sense of law”. Clark said.
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The Labor leader said that Labor’s landslide victory in the elections meant they had a mandate to go ahead with the formation of the next government. Source: 1 NEWS
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Clark credited Ardern for his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, but also criticized National for “touching his ankles.”
“They hit their ankle when deciding to execute a strategy to try to find fault and a scandal of every little thing that happened on the border and [Covid-19] evidence, “he said.
“Look, the Government was creating a tailored system to deal with a new coronavirus, as it had never affected us before, it was not a flu pandemic, it was worse. So you cannot expect things to go 100% well. right unless you have a perfect hindsight that none of us have. “
National won 26.8 percent of the party’s votes, which translates to 35 seats in Parliament.
