New Zealand Election Debate

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New zealand election debate. Early voting will begin on october 3 while overseas voting will start on september 30. The 2020 new zealand general election was held on saturday 17 october 2020 to determine the composition of the 53rd parliament. Did labour leader jacinda ardern or national leader judith collins win the debate.

Five of the smaller parties act advance nz the green party the māori party and new zealand first faced off in a debate tonight. Labour party supporters watch results come in and wait for jacinda ardern to arrive during an election night event at auckland town hall in auckland new zealand on october 17 2020. The first election debate between the new zealand prime minister jacinda ardern and the opposition leader judith collins went off without a bang with both leaders failing to properly ignite.

Voters elected 120 members to the house of representatives 72 from single member electorates and 48 from closed party lists two referendums one on the personal use of cannabis and one on euthanasia were also held. Collins vs ardern but who won the avocado debate. Jacinda ardern saves best for last in new zealand election tv debate.

New zealand politics election 2020 leaders debate. This article is more than 1 month old. Five experts on the final debate and the campaign s winners and losers ahead of the big decision richard shaw bronwyn hayward grant duncan jennifer curtain and rawiri taonui 17.

In the lead up to the election new. Have your say in our poll. It s part one of the 2020 new zealand election debate and it probably won t make sense to 90 of my subsc.

New zealand s general election is being held on saturday october 17. The one hour debate on from 7pm was moderated by tvnz political editor jessica mutch mckay.