Articles in ‘Election’

Polling Reality · With Labour ahead of National in the polls on the back of doing absolutely nothing, it seems clear that the electorate has rejected National. · Does the country want or need to have Labour back? · Hell No! · Six years of Labour (from 2017 to 2023) left New Zealand buried in debt, divided by race, and drowning in broken promises. Now the same people who caused that mess are moaning about how bad things are and stating that…

The latest polling analysis reported by Radio New Zealand shows a continued decline in support for the National Party, with the governing coalition now trailing the combined left bloc. Recent data indicates National is hovering around the 30% mark, while Labour and its potential coalition partners are collectively polling higher — enough to form government if replicated at an election. ([The Guardian][1]) · This shift marks a notable change in…

Chantelle Baker · DECEMBER 3rd - Covid Vaccine Pass and Traffic light system locked anyone over 12 out of society. · DECEMBER 9th - CVTAG said NOT to double jab u18’s. · DECEMBER 21st - Chris asked about Rory’s death, deflected and told people the jab was safe. @chrishipkinsmp #labour · Read the document released on HEALTH NZ

TASMAN, NZ – The New Zealand Outdoors & Freedom Party is sounding the alarm on a looming national crisis, as refined fuel stocks face potential depletion by late April 2026. Energy Spokesperson Lester Bryant warns that the escalating Iran US conflict has exposed the catastrophic vulnerability of New Zealand’s supply chain following the closure of the Marsden Point refinery. · With the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed to stable shipping, New…

Winston Peters’ speech was classic Peters: part campaign launch, part economic indictment, part nationalist manifesto, and part cultural pushback. It was delivered with confidence, humour, confrontation, and a heavy appeal to political memory. The overall message was that New Zealand is in deep trouble, that the country has been weakened by decades of bad decisions from both Labour and National, and that New Zealand First is the only party…

The New Zealand Outdoors & Freedom Party (NZOFP) is proud to announce the appointment of Lester Bryant as the party’s Energy Spokesperson and List Candidate for the upcoming election. Bringing decades of high-level technical expertise and a "numbers-first" approach to policy, Bryant will also contest an Auckland electorate (to be confirmed). Originally from South Taranaki, Bryant’s career is rooted in the practical realities of New Zealand’s…

The Ukrainian leader reiterated he was open to a vote but cited a litany of perceived obstacles · Vladimir Zelensky. © Getty Images · [RT] Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has suggested that Kiev’s backers could be pressing him to hold elections as a pretext to force him out of power. Zelensky’s presidential term expired in 2024, at which point Russia began declaring him “illegitimate.” · In an interview released by the BBC on Sunday,…

The Free Speech Union has written to Speaker of the House, Rt Hon. Gerry Brownlee after the @NZParliament account announced today that it "will no longer be posting updates on X," abandoning a platform used by nearly one million New Zealanders in an election year. · X has approximately 933,000 users in New Zealand, representing over 22% of adults. New Zealand ranks first globally for average session time on the platform. Parliament's…

The Ukrainian leader is apparently gauging support for a vote that he swore he’d never hold · https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/rt-newsroom/By RT newsroom -Vladimir Zelensky makes a speech during a press conference in Kiev, Ukraine, April 22, 2025 ©  Danilo Antoniuk / Anadolu via Getty Images · Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s team has floated and later rejected the idea of holding an election this summer. Like much of…

Sanae Takaichi will be able to push through a right-wing agenda now that the Liberal Democratic Party has a supermajority in the lower house · ©  Kim Kyung-Hoon / Getty Images · [RT] Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) led by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi scored a landslide victory in snap parliamentary elections on Sunday. · With a two-thirds majority in the lower house, secured together with coalition partners,…