May 22, 2019
Christian party planned on falsehood
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters says forming a Christian party led by National MP Alfred Ngaro would not be a Christian thing to do.
National leader Simon Bridges says he has given the list MP time to work on the possibility, but for now he has ruled out gifting him the Botany seat now held by former National MP Jami Lee Ross.
Commentators say National appears to have run out potential coalition partners, and with ACT no longer delivering any extra MPs a conservative Christian party could be its best shot at regaining power in the near term.
Any such party would be a puppet of National.
"How can you start a Christian party when your whole basis around it is built around deception? That you are actually going to be the surrogate of the party that formed you, namely the National Party, like for example Epsom at the moment with David Seymour or like Peter Dunne in Ohariu all those years. Everybody knows what is going on and frankly it is not, in terms of clarity integrity and honesty of the Christian faith, something that is commendable at all," Mr Peters says.
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