National Party selects Kristine Asuncion as its candidate for Dunedin, highlighting her background as a migrant dairy farmer and advocate for families, while promoting fuel cost relief and a new planning system to boost economic growth.
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I think there's a couple of things going on. One is, without getting too Connie the commentator on you, but if you look at MMP environments around the world, and the European environments are similar, the electoral system that we've had, that has now matured. We are 30 years down the road. We're in a post-COVID world. world, you're going to have brands of political parties that are trying to activate certain small groups of constituents in order to get that reflected into a government. You know, the Dutch who I've looked at, they've gone back through an election after, you know, they've gone through another before government fell apart, four party coalition. But there are some coalitions throughout Europe that are 11 parties and not one of them will have more than 17 or 18% support. So that is the reality of where MMP ultimately goes. And it doesn't matter whether it's a Labour-led. coalition or a national-led coalition, you have to allow room for other parties in an MMP world. It's not first past the post in world.
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