Peters says he won’t summarise all the policy agreements today. They will come later.
Jacinda Ardern is next prime minister of New Zealand, Winston Peters confirms – as it happened
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NZ First leader announces he has reached coalition deal to form government with Labour, which says it also has backing of Green party
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Thu 19 Oct 2017 04.42 EDT
First published on Wed 18 Oct 2017 19.58 EDTKey events
- New Zealand's next government: what we know
- Greens set to enter confidence and supply deal
- Greens to back coalition
- Bill English concedes defeat
- Ardern key points
- Ardern on learning her win from TV
- Four cabinet roles for NZ First
- Jacinda Ardern speaks
- Ardern: 'We said we could do this'
- Peters did not tell Ardern in advance
- NZ First enters coalition with Labour
- Winston Peters is here
- Peters announcement imminent
- Peters to speak in half an hour – probably
- Greens to vote on 'proposed agreement with Labour'
- How NZ First could work with Labour and Greens
- How NZ First could work with National
- Peters: 'I don't rule things out … Things change by the hour'
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Key events
- New Zealand's next government: what we know
- Greens set to enter confidence and supply deal
- Greens to back coalition
- Bill English concedes defeat
- Ardern key points
- Ardern on learning her win from TV
- Four cabinet roles for NZ First
- Jacinda Ardern speaks
- Ardern: 'We said we could do this'
- Peters did not tell Ardern in advance
- NZ First enters coalition with Labour
- Winston Peters is here
- Peters announcement imminent
- Peters to speak in half an hour – probably
- Greens to vote on 'proposed agreement with Labour'
- How NZ First could work with Labour and Greens
- How NZ First could work with National
- Peters: 'I don't rule things out … Things change by the hour'
You can’t always get what you want, Peters says of the policy agreements he has made.
He says the first priority is to prevent economic slowdown.
There were great risks in whatever decision we made.
Peters has a bit to say about how commentators and politicians failed to take proper account of NZ First during the campaign.
He says the decision has been reached by the whole party, and not by the leader (him).
He says 11 days of negotiations “is not too long to wait” and says it will take Germany much longer to figure out its government.
New Zealanders will know their next government tonight, he says.
Winston Peters is here
He thanks both parties for the negotiations and says they show how politics should operate.
There might be a New Zealand government soon:
Mr Peters is on his way to the theatrette
— Jane Patterson (@janepatterson) October 19, 2017
Given that the actual new prime minister of New Zealand won’t be making the announcement of who is the new prime minister of New Zealand, we’ll expect to hear from Bill English and Jacinda Ardern after Winston Peters speaks.
The Labour leader will be quick off the blocks, it appears:
Breaking: Jacinda Ardern holding stand-up presser straight after Peters @nzherald
— Shayne Currie (@ShayneCurrieNZH) October 19, 2017
Peters announcement imminent
And the official version via NZ First:
New Zealand First leader Rt Hon Winston Peters will make an announcement in the Beehive theatrette shortly.
Well, we’re getting something from Peters:
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The lectern at the theatrette (that’s what it’s called, don’t blame me) is ready but still empty, as the room fills with New Zealand’s political journalists.
There still seems to be some doubt over whether Winston Peters – a man who taunts journalists for sport – will show:
Nobody told us to come to the Beehive theatrette. We are like cows who wandered to the milking shed and the farmer is like, what you doing?
— Jo Moir (@jo_moir) October 19, 2017
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