The shape of the Government

What we know so far is:

  • Jacinda Ardern PM
  • Winston Peters offered Deputy PM
  • Three other NZ First Cabinet Ministers
  • will have three Ministers outside Cabinet
  • One NZ First Under-Secretary and one Green Under-Secretary

I presume the three NZ First Cabinet Ministers will be Shane Jones, Ron Mark and Tracey Martin.

The Greens Ministers will presumably be James Shaw, and Julie-Anne Genter.

Labour has 16 spots on Cabinet. Their caucus elects them but they tend to follow the leader's nominations. Their current top 16 in terms of House seating are:

  1. Jacinda Ardern
  2. Kelvin Davis
  3. Grant Robertson
  4. Phil Twyford
  5. Megan Woods
  6. Chris Hipkins
  7. Carmel Sepuloni
  8. David Clark
  9. David Parker
  10. Stuart Nash
  11. Iain Lees-Galloway
  12. William Su'a Sio
  13. Kris Faafoi

It is likely Trevor Mallard will become Speaker. Two Government MPs will also be and and one Opposition MP will be an Assistant Speaker also.

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