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Sunday markets in Palmerston North were perhaps calmer than Peters expected.
“Where are all the customers?” I ask.
Even the offer of a free donut didn’t change Peters’ mood.
“I don’t eat candy. Sorry,” he said, taking a whole grain donut without sprinkling icing sugar before taking off after less than 10 minutes.
The work continued towards the center of the city.
“We don’t like fossil fuels around here,” a woman told him, to Peters’ surprise. “We don’t like fossils around here.”
Peters went to the local mall for a short respite, then a public meeting, which should have been the pinnacle of the day.
But five minutes after the meeting was supposed to start, there were a total of 26 people there.
“There were a lot of people who wanted to say hi, they wanted pictures,” he told Newshub. When asked about participating in the meeting, “There is a rugby event underway,” he said.
New Zealand First scored just 1.9 percent in the latest Newshub Reid-Research poll, not enough to get it back in Parliament.
But Peters was not interested in reflecting on the past years, the four decades.
“I’m not answering those kinds of questions in a campaign with only five days to go,” he said.
The last term has been peppered with ups and downs: Peters took over after Jacinda Ardern had Neve.
“She came in and said, ‘Clarke and I are going to have a baby.’ And I said, ‘Well, congratulations. How lucky you are, ” he recalled.
Was there a commotion? “Not.”
And there are the lows: the attacks on the Christchurch mosque on March 15. Peters wanted to emphasize his cooperation.
“My office sent a message to the prime minister right away saying that we would support it to the end,” he said.
And at that moment he did. Labor and NZ First held the government together for three years.
But now it’s the game, every party for them.
