Elect children, expect childish behaviour, the whole thing was a desecration, it was like baboons filled Parliament.
We have a profoundly racist and anti democratic electoral system. To win a normal electorate seat with 50% of the vote candidates would get +20,000 votes, we have special Maori electorates, overlapping normal electorates, and this child won one of these with >52% and only got 14k votes. Plus we are supposed to have a strict PR electoral system except those rules don't apply to the Maori electorates. The Maori Party (this kid belongs) have 6 MPs and got a total of 87k votes across the whole country. NZ First, the next biggest party has 8 MPs but they have than double that number of votes.
Elect children, expect childish behaviour, the whole thing was a desecration, it was like baboons filled Parliament.
We have a profoundly racist and anti democratic electoral system. To win a normal electorate seat with 50% of the vote candidates would get +20,000 votes, we have special Maori electorates, overlapping normal electorates, and this child won one of these with >52% and only got 14k votes. Plus we are supposed to have a strict PR electoral system except those rules don't apply to the Maori electorates. The Maori Party (this kid belongs) have 6 MPs and got a total of 87k votes across the whole country. NZ First, the next biggest party has 8 MPs but they have than double that number of votes.