Co-Party Leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer gives strongest hint yet Te Pati Māori are gearing up for Kākāriki Alliance

Co-Party Leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer gave her strongest hint yet Te Pati Māori are gearing up for a Kākāriki Alliance MMP voting tactic in the Māori Electorates which could be the difference between winning and losing.

What the polls are telling us is how crucial it is for the Greens to retain their third place ranking for two reasons.

The first is that it keeps Winston out of power if he can’t leap frog them and the second is that it opens a door to TOP who continue to push closer towards the 5% threshold.

That’s why the Kākāriki Alliance between TPM and Greens is so essential.

Look at that wasted TPM Party vote, if it was recycled to the Greens, that would see the Greens on 15% WHILE creating a huge TPM MMP Overhang!

The moment to gain real wins for progressives isn’t at the election, it’s at the negotiating table AFTER the election.

There is one move left for Te Pati Māori to make in the Election Chess that would be a checkmate for the Left and would set up a Labour/Green/TPM Government that would make the real policy gains that Labour is too incremental to make.

Imagine if TPM actually adopted an MMP strategy for this election?

Labour refuse point blank to consider it and cut their noses off to spite their faces which is ridiculous because if this Hard Right Government with their anti-Māori, anti-Treaty, anti-beneficiary, anti-worker, anti-renter and anti-environment agenda really is as bad as we all claim they are, Labour SHOULD be considering every possible means to beat them, including using MMP.

TPM continue to call out Labour for refusing to do this, so imagine the media attention and left wing voter joy if Te Pati Māori actually walked the talk?

What if Te Pati Māori call a press conference to argue that the need to ensure this is a one term Government is so real that they have done what Labour has refused to do, take the election seriously with an MMP strategy designed to ensure Winston is not Prime Minister for 12 months and this Government becomes a 1 termer.

Imagine if Te Pati Māori were bold enough to push the following:

In the Māori Electorates, Candidate vote  Te Pati Māori, Party vote Green!

Right now the Party vote means little to TPM because they will gain more electorates than Party vote, it’s effectively wasted, but if that Māori Party vote was instead recycled to the Greens, it would not only generate an MMP overhang that makes it impossible for the right to get to 51%, it would also pump the Greens up by 2-3%!

So you could get TPM with 4 electorate seats and the Greens with 15%+ Party vote which would be enough to beat the Right.

No Political Party has ever asked for the Party vote to go to another political party as a specific tactic so the media attention at such a unique use of MMP would excite the electorate while demanding mainstream media attention.

The Kākāriki Alliance would see Te Pati Māori and the Greens uniting after the election for a unified negotiating with Labour so that the Greens can’t get played by Labour cutting any deal with NZF and TPM can’t be dumped because they generate an MMP overhang.

It is in the negotiation AFTER the election with Labour using a unified negotiating team of Green and TPM to force the real tax changes and environmental policy we need.

Māori in the Māori Electorates are the most strategic voters in MMP, give them the tools to enact a strategy that could actually beat this terrible right wing Government and they will jump at it.

Candidate vote TPM and Party Vote Green alongside a unified negotiating team post election would be the way to enact the policy our communities are begging for.

The Kākāriki Alliance is the most important for Left wing voters this Election.