August 22, 2017
Davidson questions Labour policy commitment
Green MP Marama Davidson says the party is determined to claw back into parliament so it can hold Labour to account if it forms a Government.
Polls released since the resignation of co-leader Metiria Turei have had the Greens falling to between 4.5 and 9 percent.
Ms Davidson, who is now number two on the party list, says it has retained its core support and it is working to assure voters that the policies championed by Ms Turei are still in place.
She says it's people want to see transformational change on issues like welfare reform and the environment, they need the Greens.
"Labour hasn't yet changed it's climate change policy even with the promises from Jacinda. It's the Green Party who will call Labour into account on those. Are we going to see Labour step back from subsidising fossil fuel and from deep sea oil drilling. They haven't yet made any notion of that at all," she says.
Marama Davidson says the Greens are the only party with a policy of universal te reo Maori in schools and a review of the treaty settlement process to sway the balance of power back towards hapu.
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