{"id":22821,"date":"2020-09-18T10:01:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T01:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/18\/new-zealanders-want-small-parties-at-the-political-table-but-the-system-is-stacked-against-them"},"modified":"2020-09-18T10:01:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T01:01:20","slug":"new-zealanders-want-small-parties-at-the-political-table-but-the-system-is-stacked-against-them-claire-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22821","title":{"rendered":"New Zealanders want small parties at the political table, but the system is stacked against them | Claire Robinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an election that sorely needs alternative voices, small parties face an impossibly steep climb to be seen or heard<\/p>\n<p>If you are a follower of New Zealand politics, you\u2019d be forgiven for thinking that the 2020 general election is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/31\/arderns-labour-party-has-the-numbers-to-govern-alone-latest-poll-suggests\">fundamentally a contest between New Zealand\u2019s two major parties<\/a>, Labour and National. This is the 28th election they have been in the main ring together, and every government formed since 1935 has been led by one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Outside these two, there are 16 other political parties registered with the New Zealand Electoral Commission. Most, though not all, will be standing candidates and\/or a list in this year\u2019s MMP (Mixed Member Proportional) election. The three \u201cminor\u201d parties will also context the vote \u2013 the Greens, New Zealand First and ACT \u2013 and those which have been in parliament before, like the M\u0101ori Party. But even in New Zealand, most voters would be hard pressed to name many, if any, of those remaining.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/18\/new-zealanders-want-small-parties-at-the-political-table-but-the-system-is-stacked-against-them\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an election that sorely needs alternative voices, small parties face an impossibly steep climb to be seen or heardIf you are a follower of New Zealand politics, you\u2019d be forgiven for thinking that the 2020 general election is fundamentally a contest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1547,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,268,56,1594,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-election-2020","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22822,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22821\/revisions\/22822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}