The ACT Party launched its election campaign yesterday. One of ACT’s main policies is for a referendum on the Treaty of Waitangi.
But National’s said it doesn’t support it, potentially setting up some difficult negotiations between David Seymour and Christopher Luxon if the two are in positions of power after the October 14 election.
Seymour earlier this month suggested ACT could only provide ‘confidence’ to National if the two parties can’t fully share power. He has since said he doubts that will be needed as he expects National and ACT to be able to work together. […]
Seymour said on Sunday that New Zealand is “at a constitutional crossroad”, pulled between being a liberal democracy and elements of co-governance, which he describes as being “power-sharing between one ethnic group and all others”. […]
Seymour has rallied against what he’s deemed co-governance elements in Government programmes like the affordable water reforms, previously known as Three Waters. […]
“There is nothing in any of the three Treaty articles that suggests Maori should have special rights above other New Zealanders,” he said on Sunday.
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