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Entry 224, on 2005-09-16 at 11:59:10 (Rating 2, Politics)

The election campaign in New Zealand is drawing to a close - election day is tomorrow. Many people will be very happy that the campaigning is over and we can finally get back to normal, but I have found the entertainment value of the electioneering to be quite impressive.

The latest farce is the argument between Labour and the Maori Party, where it is alleged that a 16 year old employee of Labour, who was supposed to be maintaining billboards but was actually putting stickers on the opposition's billboards, was kidnapped and taken away for interrogation by rather intimidating looking associates the co-leader of the Maori Party.

Well at least its a welcome break from the comments of Bob Clarkson regarding the discomfort experienced from various parts of his anatomy, not normally mentioned in polite company!

So here is my prediction for the election: National will get the most votes, but won't have support from minor parties, so Labour will form a government, with the help of the Greens and Jim Anderton. And I think we will have an overhang situation, so we'll have more than 120 MPs. Great news, huh?

So here's my prediction for the percentage of seats won by the parties: Labour 41, National 44, Greens 5, Jim 1, Maori 4, NZ First 5. Probably totally wrong, but I guess we'll know tomorrow!

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