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Coates wasn't talking out of turn, he was revealing Greens' actual strategy: Edwards

Political commentator says a second Green MP told him that threatening to "go nuclear" will be the party's only real leverage in post-election negotiations.

Thu, 13 Jul 2017
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Barry Coates wasn't so much talking out of turn when he said the Greens might threaten to force another election when faced with the prospect of a Labour-NZ First coalition as revealing his party's post-election negotiating strategy.

So says political commentator Bryce Edwards, who tells NBR

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