Waatea News Column: Latest Polls call for a Māori Party/Green Party Election Summit

The latest TVNZ Poll follows the Roy Morgan and Curia Poll showing the Māori Party and Greens will be needed for Labour to form the next Government.

With food inflation hitting 12% last month and further economic global turmoil from Banks, people will feel their week to week material lives are going backwards.

Chippy has strategically burnt off any policy Labour thinks might trip them up in the race to the election, and while that’s fine strategy for winning, what happens to those who need a progressive Government?

The Māori Party and the Greens should host a Election Summit Hui where they pledge to work together and present Labour with a united front and list of bottom line policies Labour would need to adopt and pass within the first 100 days if they want Green/Māori Party supply and confidence.

If we want Transformative change we are going to have to strategically plan for it ourselves and the Greens and Māori Party as a unified front demanding baseline policy wins that make a material difference in people’s lives within 100 days of a Labour Government being sworn in is a means to ensure the many not the few are represented beyond this year’s election.

First published on Waatea News.