Greens change candidate selection rules

The Post reports:

After almost a year and a half, in which time the party has managed to go to court, use the rarely used waka jumping law and deal with another candidate selection headache, the Green Party has finally updated its candidate selection process.

It has tightened up the framework to enable greater scrutiny and strengthened its ability to decline or remove candidates. 

I was amazed to read that the Green Party had told Benjamin Doyle before the election that he should delete his bussy social media account and he refused. In most parties you would not be a candidate if you put your own ego and sense of worth above the party.

The party is automatically ranking the Māori co-leader in first on the party list with the other co-leader in the second spot. It is also asking Green members who participate in the ranking process to consider a rainbow section, adding to the criteria of women, Māori, Pasifika, disabled, region (South Island) and age.

They hardly need a rainbow quota, as LGBTQ MPs are four times over-represented in the Green caucus as they are in the NZ population as a whole. If anything, they may need a straight white male quota!