This is just an amazing series of events, with the greens now being forced to threaten to use the Waka Jumping legislation in order to try and make her do the right thing.
I don’t envy the Greens. I don’t think there are any right moves here, and I bet they are hoping for some MP from another party to do something to distract the media.
They’re probably hoping she will resign before the notice period, which is undoubtedly the best outcome.
They’ve very much backed themselves into a corner with their position on the waka jumping bill, I suspect most parties would have used it already.
They move pretty slowly because they have to get membership votes on these kinds of decisions. It does not work in their favour when it comes to news cycles.
Meanwhile, the media seem to be forgetting the fact that even though they had issues with it the Greens ultimately did vote in favour of waka jumping legislation so it’s not actually quite the crossing-the-rubicon moment eveyone is making out.
They did vote for the bill, but they were pretty vocal about not being happy about it.
It sounds like there are already people that are unhappy they issued the notice period.
saying for them it drew “re-triggering” parallels with the party’s treatment of former MP Elizabeth Kerekere (Aiono is married to Kerekere)
This is reminiscent of how fundamentalist Christians try and keep everything in house, and avoid going to the police or the media. Politics should be done in the open, they work for the public after all.
No it isn’t. It is being doing in the open and is nothing like fundamentalist Christians whatsoever.
Their membership decides what to do about this, which is far more democratic than you’d get with any other party in NZ. Compare that to the Uffindell saga.
Why are you always so angry?
It’s all being done in the open, which the people resigning in protest seem to have a problem with. They seem to think this should all be done behind closed doors, to protect the reputation of the guilty party.
Oh my bad I did misread what you said there
