Kiwis go to the polls on the same day Australians will make their choice in the Voice referendum. What’s to know now that Jacinda Ardern is out of the picture.
who was drafted into parliament at the last election and became leader a year later. A political protégé of Sir John Key, the 53-year-old can appear too corporate or wooden, but has brought discipline and focus to the Nats, which boast a policy platform full of ideas.Recent polling: 33-37 per cent.National Party leader Chris Luxon speaks at the National Party election campaign launch in Auckland on Sunday.Co-leaders: James Shaw and Marama Davidson.
New Zealand Green Party leader James Shaw, left, and Prime Minister-designate Jacinda Ardern shake hands after signing a confidence and supply agreement in 2017.Leader: David Seymour. No other NZ politician can slip as effortlessly from a serious policy discussion to an attention-grabbing stunt.
Euthanasia bill sponsor David Seymour, rear right, embraces other MPs in parliament in Wellington after passage of the bills in 2019.Co-leaders: Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi. Disruptive and radical, the Maori Party co-leaders became MPs in 2020 and have left their mark by refusing to adapt to the colonial institution of parliament. The “unapologetically Maori” pair have shifted the party leftwards from a previous incarnation that supported Key’s government.
Rawiri Waititi walks the runway during the Kiri Nathan show during New Zealand Fashion Week 23 in AUckland last week.Leader: Winston Peters. First elected in 1979 and founded NZ First in 1993. A perennial kingmaker, this time around Peters has ruled out Labour in the hope of riding a wave of dissatisfaction back into parliament. The party is promising regional investment and has added slices of anti-vax and anti-trans sentiment to its manifesto.
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