The centre-right National party and its preferred coalition partner have lost a preliminary parliamentary majority, setting the stage for a three-party tie-up with comeback MP Winston Peters.
New Zealand’s centre-right National party and its preferred coalition partner have lost a preliminary parliamentary majority, setting the stage for a three-party tie-up with comeback MP Winston Peters.
The three-week count revealed National dropped from 50 MPs in the preliminary count to 48. Its preferred coalition partner, ACT, ended up with 11 MPs - a combined result of 59 in the 122-seat parliament. Incoming prime minister Chris Luxon opted to wait for the final results before confirming plans for a coalition. On the numbers, he will need to strike a deal withThere’s “good will and good faith from all three party leaders to move forward with coalition negotiations,” Luxon said on Friday.
NZ First has other priorities, arguing the country can’t afford tax cuts and its regions need government support, and in Peters, boast parliament’s most combustible personality.The results also mean a boon for the Maori Party, which claimed another two seats from Labour and will have six.Labour will have 34 seats, while left-wingers the Greens will have 15, up one from the preliminary results, for their best-ever result.
Labour MP Helen White has been spared a humiliating upset in Mt Albert - the heartland seat previously held by Helen Clark and Jacinda Ardern - clinging to a narrow lead to win.
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