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Yvette

Two MMP votes: one for an Electorate MP, one for a ~~Party~~ Coalition
If Election results give a Labour Coalition just enough seats to govern, perhaps by a margin of two seats, and the Maori Party win four Electorate Seats as many anticipate, but by the latest poll are at only 2 percent party vote, will that mean the Labour Left will win on a feature of MMP to accomodate an unusual circumstance, but not a planned creation of that circumstance?

And to take advantage of the Maori Party taking advantage of the MMP system, how much of Maori Party policy will Labour concede, willingly or not?
What will either party progress without an actual mandate to do so?

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Google answer to “Maori Party policy on the Treaty for the 2026 Election?” –
Key policy components of the Maori Party are an independent Te Tiriti Commission (able to halt Cabinet decisions that seriously violate Treaty principles), binding Waitangi Tribunal findings (a change from advisory rulings to legally binding upon the Crown), Te Tiriti entrenchment (enshrines and entrenches Te Tiriti o Waitangi directly into New Zealand’s lawmaking and constitutional framework), and Mātike Mai Fund (a $220 million fund over four years to resource constitutional transformation work and properly implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, UNDRIP, within the party’s first 100 days in government)

• On last week’s poll, Labour, the Greens and Opportunity would have 62 seats combined. In the scenario above, that would leave them two seats short of an overall majority.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2026/10/20/analysis-could-extra-seats-in-parliament-decide-the-election/
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October 20, 2026 8:14am
Quail

Another item of interest today is the unexpected two billion $ trade deficit that has just been released.
( expected was 0.8 bn)
Post election the effects of this could mean substantial austerity for all NZ. Increased interest rates etc and all that goes with that.
Maybe this would be a good election to lose?
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October 20, 2026 8:52am

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