Opinion - Christopher Luxon is now being openly mocked and ridiculed by political commentators for his failure to achieve a coalition government, writes Bryce Edwards.
I think on the basis of this electoral result it just wouldn’t be tenable, setting aside that they all said they wouldn’t do it. NAct could try to get Te Pati Maori, but they already know what happens when you go into coalition with them and won’t want to repeat the same mistake.
There are only two possibilities here. Luxon somehow manages to form a coalition which will presumably fall apart sometime before the next election is scheduled, or will be a shambles throughout. Or he doesn’t and we have a new election that may, or may not change the parliamentary balance.
That is a question I have been asking too
I think on the basis of this electoral result it just wouldn’t be tenable, setting aside that they all said they wouldn’t do it. NAct could try to get Te Pati Maori, but they already know what happens when you go into coalition with them and won’t want to repeat the same mistake.
There are only two possibilities here. Luxon somehow manages to form a coalition which will presumably fall apart sometime before the next election is scheduled, or will be a shambles throughout. Or he doesn’t and we have a new election that may, or may not change the parliamentary balance.