August 02, 2021
Greens see hope despite poll dip
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson says latest poll results will harden her party's resolve to become a full coalition member of the next Government.
The Greens hold their annual meeting in Silverstream next weekend, and it's the first chance ministers and MPs have had since the election to update members on what they have been doing.
The latest Roy Morgan poll puts the Greens on 10 percent, a drop of 2.5 percentage points.
Labour was up 1 point to 39.5 percent.
National dropped half a point to 29 percent, while ACT surged to 13 percent.
Ms Davidson says the results show the centre-left block is still 5 points ahead – but the trend confirms Labour's election night spike was unusual and it will need the Greens to form the next Government.
"That means our priorities of protecting our climate for future generations, making sure we have justice equality and making sure we are looking after our taiao, our environment remain those massive priorities for us to push Labour to go further and faster and we'll keep doing that – it's the mahi we focus on every day," she says.
Support for the Māori Party was unchanged at 2.5%.
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