The Greens initial party list has been released. Stuff reports:
An initial list for the Green Party puts activist Teanau Tuiono ahead of several sitting MPs in the party.
The Green Party list will dictate which of their MPs enter Parliament after the next election, should they win over five per cent of the vote.
The ranking of the list is voted on by members in two different stages – first by delegates at a conference for an initial list and then by all 7000 or so Green Party members closer to the election.
The initial list, seen by Stuff, puts co-leader Marama Davidson at number one, followed by co-leader and climate change minister James Shaw at number 2, switching their rankings from the last election.
Ahead of Genter and sitting MPs Chlöe Swarbrick and Golriz Ghahraman is Tuiono at five.
The list is:
- Marama Davidson
- James Shaw
- Jan Logie
- Eugenie Sage
- Teanau Tuiono
- Julie Anne Genter
- Chloe Swarbrick
- Golriz Ghahraman
- Elizabeth Kerekere
- Ricardo Menéndez March
This brief spread sheet shows how much the Greens are ignoring their constitution’s rules about gender balance.
| List Ranking | Candidate | Gender | Percentage |
| 1 | Davidson | F | 100% female |
| 2 | Shaw | M | 50% |
| 3 | Logie | F | 67% female |
| 4 | Sage | F | 75% female |
| 5 | Tuiono | M | 40% male |
| 6 | Genter | F | 67% female |
| 7 | Swarbrick | F | 71% female |
| 8 | Ghahraman | F | 75% female |
The Green Party Rules and Constitution specify a quota on gender: “Gender – a maximum of 60% of candidates shall be male; a maximum of 60% of candidates shall be female. Gender is defined on the basis of the answer to the open question on the Parliamentary Candidate Declaration and Nomination forms.”
That’s right, there is a quota determined by whether or not someone has a penis. Perhaps Some of them are going to identify as men ahead of the election. If so that is going to make some of their anti-patriarchy statements made previously look as ludicrous as their whole party.
If the Greens get 5% the top six get in. With those six there would be a gender imbalance in contravention of their rules.
If they get 6% Chloe Swarbrick gets back. But the gender imbalance is still against the rules and getting worse.
If they get 7% Golriz Ghahraman is back also. The gender imbalance would now be well outside the rules.
If they don’t rectify this then they will look like hypocrites close to the election. Yet again this will be another case of politicians and political parties thinking that the rules don’t apply to them.
Will the Greens uphold their own constitution and sail into this election like they did the last one, in complete breach of their own rules?
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