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Contested 7 races — 4 elected 3 not elected
Don’t post. Don’t do pub talk. And don’t declare it the year of growth if Donald Trump is the president. Celebrations for a big and bodacious Oriini Kaipara byelection victory were shortlived for Te Pāti Māori thanks to Tākuta Ferris’s decision to double down on a social media post aghast at a multicultural group of Labour supporters for Peeni Henare on the campaign trail.
Pressure from coalition partners may see NZ First abandon its stance on the Regulatory Standards Bill, raising questions about principle versus survival. At the recent New Zealand First Convention, Shane Jones criticised “David Seymour’s regulatory bill”, but implied that NZ First will enable it to pass. Despite his attempt to shift responsibility onto Act, the bill was drafted by the coalition government after cabinet policy approvals, introduced as a government bill, and all coalition partners needed to agree to its content.
OPINION: Seymour is straining coalition ties by mouthing off about NZ's position on Gaza.
The Deputy PM backs public funding for Wegovy to save taxpayers money, but says the decision is Pharmac’s, not politicians’.
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has accused Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour of "talking out of his field" in regards to Palestine, but Seymour rejects that.
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