{"id":49235,"date":"2022-10-10T14:42:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T05:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/10\/a-shift-in-political-thinking-why-many-of-new-zealands-cities-have-lurched-to-the-right-local-elections"},"modified":"2022-10-10T14:42:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T05:42:33","slug":"a-shift-in-political-thinking-many-of-new-zealands-cities-lurch-right-in-local-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49235","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A shift in political thinking\u2019: many of New Zealand\u2019s cities lurch right in local elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say the progressive vote is disillusioned with incremental changes brought in by Ardern Labour government<\/p>\n<p>Late in the campaign period of Auckland\u2019s mayoral election came a spate of strange, oddly specific, billboard vandalism. As the race in New Zealand\u2019s most populous city wound to its conclusion, boardings for Efeso Collins, an independent progressive candidate and mayoral frontrunner, were plasteredwith red \u201cLabour\u201d party logos.<\/p>\n<p>Compared with the moustaches and monobrows that typically bedeck election billboards, it seemed an innocuous choice for vandals. But Collins\u2019 campaign said it was an act of politicised sabotage. \u201cNone of our allies or volunteers have been doing it,\u201d a spokesperson<a href=\"https:\/\/thespinoff.co.nz\/local-elections-2022\/07-10-2022\/the-curious-case-of-the-labour-logos-stuck-to-efeso-collins-hoardings\"> told The Spinoff<\/a>. \u201cWe believe it\u2019s an attack tactic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/10\/a-shift-in-political-thinking-why-many-of-new-zealands-cities-have-lurched-to-the-right-local-elections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say the progressive vote is disillusioned with incremental changes brought in by Ardern Labour governmentLate in the campaign period of Auckland\u2019s mayoral election came a spate of strange, oddly specific, billboard vandalism. As the race in New&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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":[41,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","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\/49235","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49236,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49235\/revisions\/49236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}