Kingmaker dethroned: Peters fails in NZ election

Winston Peters, who rode a small elderly constituency and populist sentiment to some of the highest offices in New Zealand in governments of all stripes, may have made his political maneuver after his party was roundly rejected in the New Zealand election.

Thomas Manch

Oct 18, 2020 – 3.47pm

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Russell. New Zealand | It looks like the kingmaker is no more.

The sun appeared to set on the nearly four-decade career of Winston Peters at the Duke of Marlborough Hotel on Russell on Saturday night, as his NZ First party secured less than 3 per cent of the vote in a New Zealand election that delivered Jacinda Ardern a landslide victory.

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