New Zealand Election A Cliff-Hanger

Well, Labor's saying because it is the lager party - and remember only just - that it has the first option to form a coalition government. Now, even if you add together all the centre-left parties here in New Zealand. If you add together the Greens, the Maori Party, the Progressives - you put all that together and you still only get exactly 50 per cent of the vote. You don't get a clear majority. So even if it stitches all those parties together, it's still going to have to look to another party to ensure confidence and supply. It looks like a recipe for chaos and one of the papers here this morning has said this could be the frailest and most unwieldy governing arrangement in living memory in New Zealand.

It seems the whole world is divided these days.
Us, Germany, New Zealand. The winds of change are indeed blowing all around the globe.

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