{"id":59165,"date":"2023-10-13T08:39:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T23:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/13\/new-zealand-election-2023-nz-labour-chris-hipkins-national-christopher-luxon"},"modified":"2023-10-13T08:39:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T23:39:23","slug":"new-zealand-election-2023-labour-and-national-make-last-ditch-pleas-to-voters-on-eve-of-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59165","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand election 2023: Labour and National make last-ditch pleas to voters on eve of poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hipkins and Christopher Luxon clash in heated final debate ahead of 14 October vote as left-leaning government trails right bloc in polls<\/p>\n<p>The leaders of New Zealand\u2019s two major political parties have made a last ditch effort to sway votes in their favour on the final day of campaigning before the country\u2019s general election.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders clashed in their most heated debate yet \u2013 the last of the campaign, which aired on TVNZ on Thursday night. In his final message, Labour\u2019s Chris Hipkins warned the public that a vote for the opposition would bake in poverty and see action on climate change go backwards.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/13\/new-zealand-election-2023-nz-labour-chris-hipkins-national-christopher-luxon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hipkins and Christopher Luxon clash in heated final debate ahead of 14 October vote as left-leaning government trails right bloc in pollsThe leaders of New Zealand\u2019s two major political parties have made a last ditch effort to sway votes in their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[41,2832,2765,56,2941,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59165","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","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\/59165","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59166,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59165\/revisions\/59166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}