The New Zealand Parliament has given people just 5 days to send in submissions on these proposes changes to how local government democracy operates in New Zealand.
Go to this link to access the submission process.
“Public submissions are now being called for the Local Government (Electoral Legislation and Māori Wards and Māori Constituencies) Amendment Bill
The closing date for submissions is 11.59pm, Wednesday, 29 May 2024
The bill proposes to reinstate the right to a local referendum on the establishment or ongoing use of Māori wards and Māori constituencies. This includes requiring a poll, at the next local body elections, on any Māori wards and Māori constituencies established without a poll.
The bill would:
reinstate polls on Māori wards and Māori constituencies
require councils to hold a binding poll at the 2025 local elections if they established Māori wards or Māori constituencies since 2020 and did not hold a poll
adjust the statutory time frames for local elections to give more time for the postal delivery of voting papers.”
The bill can be viewed at this link
[Editor’s Note: Thanks to Paul Barlow’s Youtube channel for highlighting this small submission window on a proposed change to how local council democracy functions in New Zealand. The CityWatch NZ team probably will not agree with Paul Barlow on many different contentious issues. However, we can agree with Paul Barlow that this deadline for submissions is far too short and more people need to be getting involved with these political processes to make their views known.
When we have more spare time at CityWatch NZ, we will look at addressing the numerous problems with some of Paul Barlow’s other content. This would be a response to Paul Barlow’s content which contains: statements which are factually incorrect, misleading claims & misrepresentations, elaborate & poorly-evidenced conspiracy theories, convoluted use of guilt-by-association tactics, and some desperate attempts to find some Nazis]
