Open Blog to Green Party Members voting on the Candidate List

The last minute attempt using new rules to try and delay the membership vote on candidate rankings by the Uber Woke Clique who have attempted to gerrymander the list by stacking it in favour of their new co-leadership team of Kerekere and Ricardo was defeated late Friday night, but it gives you an insight into the factional politics at play…

Elizabeth Kerekere supporters fail to delay party vote in late night meeting

An umbrella group of Green Party members has failed in their bid to delay members from voting on their party list while MP Elizabeth Kerekere is under investigation by the party. Voting will begin on Friday as planned.

Members of the Rainbow Greens, Young Greens, Aotearoa Greens Global, Pasifika Greens, and Inclusive Greens used a relatively new process to call an “urgent member assembly” to try to delay a vote on on the party’s list.

Kerekere’s supporters fear that if the vote begins before the investigation wraps up, it could be the end of her Parliamentary career.

The party used a new voting system where representatives from each province as well as the lived experience groups cast votes.

…these ‘lived experience groups’ have block voted into place their identity candidates and are now frantically trying to delay the vote as the wider membership looks on disapprovingly at these political stunts being played out in public.

The new constitution adopted by the party in 2022, expanded the guidelines for selecting candidates whilst allocating voting rights to previously informal interest group networks. One effect of this has been to de-prioritise talent, effectiveness and electoral appeal in the list-ranking process in favour of a kind of horse trading over how to fit in the right quota of geography, ethnicity, ability, youth & gender into the various positions on the list.

It is this new network that a far more puritanical woke clique have seized upon and manipulated to ensure their identity candidates have most influence.

I have voted Greens most of my adult life and I barely recognise this current mutation.

The Greens must move against alienating woke middle class politics and urgently refocus on the economic pain voters are living with.

To that end the top 5 candidates as ranked by Green Party Members should be:

1: Chloe

2: Golriz

3: Julie Ann Genter

4: Efeso Collins

5: Steve Able

Those are the only 5 who have the courage and capacity to take the Greens to where they need to go post any Labour led Government.

I think the wider membership have been appalled at these types of political machinations by woke cliques.

It is time to put in place a leadership team that can actually push for progress rather than destroy for dogma.

The top 5 is that team.

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