Today the prime minister, John Key, announced the date of this year’s New Zealand elections—Saturday, November 26—saying the early announcement "creates certainty for New Zealanders and allows people to plan accordingly." It may be “unprecedented”, as the media have called it, for a date to be announced 10 months in advance, though I haven’t been able to verify that’s the case.
At any rate, some folks are saying that setting an election date 10 months in advance, combined with campaigning on an agenda of “privatising” (selling off, actually) state-owned assets means that Key and the National Party are confident of re-election. I don’t know it that’s true, but if it is, it could also mean overconfidence.
In any case, it will be a pretty raucous 10 months.
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