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Edwards on Politics
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MMP: not as bad as critics feared, nor as good as advocates hoped

ANALYSIS: While political parties have to collaborate to form governments, politics remains tribal.

Brent Edwards Thu, 18 Nov 2021

This time 25 years ago the country was holding its breath waiting for a new government to be formed.

Despite the country’s first MMP election being held on October 12, 1996, it took nine weeks of negotiations before a government was formed when New Zealand First leader Winston Peters announced

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