Voters urged to ‘do their homework’ after Voices for Freedom reportedly suggested potential candidates hide affiliation to the group in candidate paperwork
An anti-vaccine group that was involved in the weeks-long occupation at parliament this year has called on its supporters to take up positions in New Zealand’s local government so they can “throw their weight around”.
The Voices for Freedom group was one of many affiliated with the February protest that was nominally about the government’s vaccine-mandate rules, but which reflected an extensive list of complaints, including QAnon-style conspiracies and vaccine-scepticism.
