Posted on 09/21/2014 5:41:49 AM PDT by Olog-hai
New Zealand’s ruling National party stormed to a third term in government in the country’s general election on Saturday with the center-right party securing an outright election night majority on a platform to continue tight economic policies.
Prime Minister John Key’s party won 48.1 percent of the vote, translating into 61 of 121 parliamentary seats and improving its performance from the 2011 vote.
“I think people saw the country was on the right direction and they rewarded us,” Key told reporters as he headed to a victory rally. “What you saw was people saying they were going to vote for the future of the country and the issues that mattered, and not be distracted.” …
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61 of 121 is a long way from “storming”!
I was thinking along the lines of "in comparison with the opposing parties".
The entire political spectrum in most countries has been seriously red-shifted.
So center-right in many place is what we would consider a very liberal Democrat here.
Nope. A center left party beat out a Marxist party. Nothing right in New Zealand for decades.
Center-right? And they approved sodomite “marriage” last year? Hardly.
More like center radical Left.
center-right??
Is it “back to power” if they are incumbents?
Good news for New Zealand.
They’ve won a 1 seat majority, a gain of just 2 seats.
It doesn’t sound like the “landslide” they are saying it is, however this is the first time since they went to proportional representation that a single party has a majority, and it’s popular vote lead over 2nd place Labor was nearly 20 points.
A really weird new third party (basically a Pirate Party) founded by a German expat who changed his surname to “Dotcom” and teamed up with a leftist Maori interest party, failed to win a single seat. After seeing the “name” “Dotcom” in print several times I suffered a mini-stroke due to the idiocy of it.
You do know that they passed gay marriage, right?
I am, so? That was bound to happen in liberal New Zealand. It was an open vote and a slight majority of National Party members voted no.
The alternative to Key was much worse, his socialist Labour predecessor, the embarrassing Helen Clark, ran the country into the ground during her tenure.
So I maintain, Key’s reelection is “good news for New Zealand”. Should I have said “it’s too bad the socialists didn’t win”?
Why is everything evil “bound to happen”? Who created that binding?
Key is instituting Labour policies by doing what he did. This is a good thing?
You named one bad thing he passed, I'm sure there are a couple others, maybe more than the couple. This in contrast to the socialists who have passed 7000 bad things and done NOTHING right. So I say again, HIS REELECTION was good. news. for. New. Zealand. The alternative was the socialists coming back to power which would have been bad. 2 outcomes, 1 clearly worse, so the other one being achieved is "good news", can you dig it? Should I have been rooting for the socialists? Did you?
If Romney had beaten Obama I would have said that was good news for America, would you have hassled me for saying that?
One bad thing cancels out many good things.
Are you expecting socialists to do anything right?
2 election outcomes, the better one happened, that’s all I said, that’s it.
The lesser of two evils is probably correct.
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