Labour haemorrhaged votes to the left and right. It was punished by voters who believed it had spent years in government focusing on side issues.
″New Zealanders have chosen change and we will deliver it,” vowed victorious incoming prime minister Christopher Luxon on election night last weekend in Auckland.implement change
This election is no different. Luxon’s National Party holds a slim majority in a coalition agreement with the libertarian ACT Party, though 570,000 votes could change that equation and require a third coalition partner to be pulled into the mix. The party was punished by voters who believed it had spent years in government focusing on peripheral issues as cost-of-living pressures mounted, with right-wing minor parties railing against the Maori representation measures Ardern championed in office.
“Governments run on their records, and I think many New Zealanders looked back after six years of Labour and said ‘well, actually, we’re not better off than we were six years ago’,” National MP and party campaign director Chris Bishop told“I don’t want to give advice to my Liberal colleagues across the ditch ... but there’s no doubt that economic management is always central to centre-right political parties and their pitch to the electorate.
“Because of rising interest rates, and fairly sluggish and anaemic global growth, anyone anywhere who’s promising radical change or who’s promising huge reform programmes is going to really struggle,” he says. Having successfully prosecuted Labour’s failings, Luxon, a former Air New Zealand chief executive, says he’s now focusing on “building chemistry” with his potential coalition partners.
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