Dawn chorus Monday October 19
Labour landslide delivers two pyrrhic victories and a bonfire of the furniture; Ardern likely to agree loose supply and confidence-type deal with Greens within 3 weeks; National launches inquest
Labour won the 2020 election outright over the weekend with its biggest vote share since 1972. Its 64 seats in the 120 seat Parliament is a first for a single party since the adoption of MMP in 1996.
This gives Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern the sort of unbridled power that voters hoped MMP would never deliver, given New Zealand’s lack of a second chambe…
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