{"id":59171,"date":"2023-10-13T13:27:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T04:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/13\/winston-peters-on-new-zealands-unreal-campaign-as-populist-poised-to-be-election-kingmaker"},"modified":"2023-10-13T13:27:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T04:27:34","slug":"winston-peters-on-new-zealands-unreal-campaign-as-populist-poised-to-be-election-kingmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59171","title":{"rendered":"Winston Peters on New Zealand\u2019s \u2018unreal\u2019 campaign as populist poised to be election kingmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polls indicate NZ First may hold balance of power as major parties warn of \u2018chaos\u2019 or a fresh vote should Peters wield such influence<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/new-zealand-election-2023\">Read all our coverage of the New Zealand 2023 election<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ahead of New Zealand\u2019s election, no politician has capitalised so much on opposition to vaccine mandates and antipathy to the political establishment as the veteran lawmaker and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/03\/im-going-nowhere-but-up-winston-peters-on-populism-politics-and-the-polls\">self-professed populist<\/a> Winston Peters.<\/p>\n<p>His minor New Zealand First party\u2019s expected surge in support on Saturday \u2013 perhaps allowing it to hold the balance of power \u2013 would supply a voice in parliament to those most discontented with New Zealand\u2019s leaders, and herald a higher profile for so-called culture war topics that Peters has ardently embraced.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/13\/winston-peters-on-new-zealands-unreal-campaign-as-populist-poised-to-be-election-kingmaker\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polls indicate NZ First may hold balance of power as major parties warn of \u2018chaos\u2019 or a fresh vote should Peters wield such influenceRead all our coverage of the New Zealand 2023 electionAhead of New Zealand\u2019s election, no politician has capitalised so&#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":[41,56,2941,933,944,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-election-2023","category-new-zealand-politics","category-winston-peters","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\/59171","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=59171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59172,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59171\/revisions\/59172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}