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When asked how tempting the prospect of ruling alone is, Ardern said: “Have no doubt that we will campaign strongly and we will campaign strongly for a strong mandate for Labor.”
So on the one hand, that’s a ‘yes’ that Ardern wants Labor in government and only at work. But on the other hand, that means the Labor friends of this term, NZ First and the Greens, are in the proverbial.
“My view is that New Zealand is well served by having the range of smaller parties that we have in Parliament,” Ardern said, when asked if it would be regrettable if NZ First and the Greens did not return to Parliament next. finished.
Even if killing Winston Peters politically is not the goal, in current polls it is packed. Labor pollsters have it at 3.9 percent, and they generally always have it above 5 percent.
“That’s a Labor Party poll and here you are reciting it, I mean growing up, being more professional and realizing that this is all about New Zealand, not just the old two-party narrative,” Peters said Thursday.
The Greens are also below 5 percent in the same poll, on the verge of political oblivion after the Green School funding debacle. But the Greens are still trying to make the decisions, still trying to freeze NZ First from any future Labor-led governments.
“When you look at the track record they have had over the last three years, they have been extremely difficult and quite chaotic and not, I would say, a force for restraint within government,” Shaw told Newshub.
In 2012, the Electoral Commission reviewed the MMP and recommended that we lower the threshold for entering Parliament to 4 percent and remove the outerwear rule.
That has been the lifeline for ACT and it could mean Leader David Seymour brings in more MPs than NZ First or the Greens with fewer votes, if Epsom wins.
“There is no logic in the position of abolishing tails. If you win a seat in the electorate, then you have passed the test to be in Parliament. Why shouldn’t you also get proportional representation?” Seymour told Newshub.
Shaw said he doesn’t think MMP works as well as it should.
National Party leader Judith Collins did not vote for the MMP in the 1993 referendum and she still doesn’t like it.
“Well, I don’t think it actually serves New Zealand very well. I think what you’ll see is that some of those minor games might despair and I’m not sure if that’s a bad thing,” Collins said.
Peters doesn’t want our MMP system to change at all, and he’s confident that NZ First will return and that Labor will not rule alone.
“It’s not going to happen,” he said.
Ardern said: “This is rare for New Zealand, so we are not assuming it will be fulfilled at any time.”
Friday is show time with the leaders of the five political parties in the same room pitching their policies face to face, and from the way this election is going, it could be one of the last times they are all together.
The protective gear and helmets used in the election campaign will be abandoned by the addresses of the leaders in Business NZ, but maybe they shouldn’t be … just in case.
