{"id":58331,"date":"2023-09-13T03:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/13\/guardian-essential-new-zealand-poll-winston-peters-in-position-to-become-election-kingmaker"},"modified":"2023-09-13T03:00:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T18:00:37","slug":"guardian-essential-new-zealand-poll-winston-peters-in-position-to-become-election-kingmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58331","title":{"rendered":"Guardian Essential New Zealand poll: Winston Peters in position to become election kingmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest survey sees support for New Zealand First exceed 5% for second month as Labour falters and National remains unchanged ahead of October election<\/p>\n<p>Neither a Labour nor a National coalition could form a government without the support of populist minor party New Zealand First after the October election, according to the latest Guardian Essential political poll \u2013 which showed respondents unwilling to give either major party a commanding victory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/09\/guardian-essential-poll-new-zealand-national-holds-clear-lead-over-labour-as-election-nears\">Since August<\/a>, the governing Labour party slumped 2.5 points to 26.9% in the survey, which also recorded unsure voters \u2013 5.3% in September \u2013 in its final result. But the results showed apathy towards both of the biggest parties, with centre-right National failing to pick up any speed from August, despite remaining ahead on 34.5%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/13\/guardian-essential-new-zealand-poll-winston-peters-in-position-to-become-election-kingmaker\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest survey sees support for New Zealand First exceed 5% for second month as Labour falters and National remains unchanged ahead of October electionNeither a Labour nor a National coalition could form a government without the support of populist mino&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"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":[41,2832,2765,56,2941,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-chris-hipkins","category-christopher-luxon","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-election-2023","category-new-zealand-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58331","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\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58332,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58331\/revisions\/58332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}