Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
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UNDER NZ’s partial-PR electoral system, political Parties need to pass a 5% threshold to enter Parliament.
To their credit, it was NZ Labour that led the change to PR: Andy Burnham, please take note!
In the General Election held today Saturday in Aotearoa, the new, fresh, centrist Opportunity Party has passed this threshold: they're currently on 6.0%.
Q is Qiulae Wong
Q has led Opportunity Party for 12 months … after responding to a job ad!
Q is for Queen, possibly also for Kingmaker
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Other Qs ~
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter
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THERE are still 400,000 votes to be counted (Specials & Overseas), which are likely to help the left-centre bloc.
As "pragmatic" Andy Burnham rows back on Boris Johnson's Net Zero, on the other side of our one planet, the quotable and well-qualified Q may be quite effective in questioning coalition partners about terms and conditions and bringing higher quality to NZ governance.
She's likely to be attracted by Green Party policies.
Guardian: New Zealand’s Opportunity party takes aim at populist politics as it prepares to enter parliament
A quasi-PR electoral system can help quench the thirst for meaningful engagement in politics. NZ suffered for years from wild pendulum swings between Labour and National (like the Conservatives).
Years or decades of single Party domination may be comfortable for some of those deep in the system, but it tends to corrode and corrupt.
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