{"id":23780,"date":"2020-10-14T08:51:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T23:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/14\/why-are-coalition-governments-common-new-zealand-election"},"modified":"2020-10-14T08:51:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T23:51:02","slug":"why-are-coalition-governments-so-common-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23780","title":{"rendered":"Why are coalition governments so common in New Zealand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s MMP electoral system was designed to give more diverse voices entry to parliament<\/p>\n<p>Coalition governments \u2013 regarded with horror in many other democracies \u2013 have become the norm in New Zealand since the country shifted to the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/12\/new-zealands-mmp-electoral-system-what-is-it-and-how-does-it-work\"> MMP electoral system<\/a> in 1996, ditching the British \u201cfirst past the post\u201d system.<\/p>\n<p>MMP \u2013 mixed-member proportional \u2013 was designed to allow more diverse voices entry to parliament, and award more power to smaller parties in an attempt to dilute the hold that the Labour and National parties had on government.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/14\/why-are-coalition-governments-common-new-zealand-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s MMP electoral system was designed to give more diverse voices entry to parliamentCoalition governments \u2013 regarded with horror in many other democracies \u2013 have become the norm in New Zealand since the country shifted to the MMP electoral s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1411,"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":[41,56,1594,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-election-2020","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23780","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\/1411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23781,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23780\/revisions\/23781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}