New Zealand First has today announced that it will be campaigning to change the electoral law to ensure that only citizens have the right to vote.
“Currently, any permanent resident who has gone through the normal process, after just two years living in New Zealand, can vote,” the party said in a press release today.
“In addition, anyone who is here on certain visas that have no expiry date, are technically eligible to vote after just one year living in New Zealand.
“They can vote on who the government is, they can vote on who the local council is, they can even vote in referendums that would fundamentally change the social fabric of our society.
“Voting in our country should be a privilege of those who have sworn allegiance to New Zealand and who have made the commitment to make New Zealand their home and their future.
“If you haven’t made that commitment or sworn that allegiance, we are happy to let you live here permanently, but why should you get a say in how this country is run or governed?
“New Zealand First will restore the basic democratic principle that the right to decide New Zealand’s future belongs to New Zealand citizens.
“Voting in general elections should be reserved for those who have made the full legal and civic commitment to this country.
“Permanent residence gives people the right to live, work, study, and build a life in New Zealand. Citizenship is different.
“Citizenship is the formal bond of allegiance, belonging, responsibility, and democratic authority.
“New Zealand First believes that distinction should matter again.”
Because I pay taxes so you can have a salary Winston. What do you not understand about the word “permanent”?
So get citizenship. Most nations don’t let PR’s vote.
It’s not the “permanent” that’s the problem, it’s the word “resident”. Globalistssuck is correct; if the right to vote matters to you, go get citizenship, and if it doesn’t don’t.
For every hard-working tax-paying “good” immigrant like you, there are 10 bad ones here to leech off of us and turn this place into the country they just left. They will ruin the place just as much for you and yours as they do for ordinary kiwis, you should be in support of this.
You’re always welcome to return to (soon to be) President Juju singing to packed stadiums about killing you with his machine gun 🤷🏼♂️
Relinquish all other passports and citizenship and fully assimilate as a New Zealander or go back to your country of origin. My English mother relinquished hers 50 years ago. Full on kiwi she is. Make your mind up or PO as far as I am concerned. Can’t have your foot in two camps.
So yes I LIKE this policy. Got my tick of approval. ✅
Time for you to f*** off back from whence you came. Paying taxes owes you NOTHING
Whence
I agree but I also suspect this is wholly self serving too.
Agree with Winston for once. Madness a non citizen (non Kiwi) can vote
I didn’t know they were allowed to vote who did that? No other country in the world allows this!
My best guess would be the mainstream party’s who benefit from voter “dependants” who will support them as long as the $$ keeps flowing in the form of payments, housing subsidies and the like.
Winston obviously has no clue that swearing allegiance to New Zealand is not even part of the process of obtaining citizenship. The applicants have to pledge allegiance to a certain king on the other side of the world – that’s a whole different thing.
Not that bright are you
You CANNOT run for parliament in India without being an Indian citizen ( article 82 of their constitution).. Nor can you even VOTE… Yet, we give both of these away to foreigners like they are worthless candy… trashing our sovereign worth, which will eventually erode what makes New Zealand ( actually, that eventually seems to be coming about very rapidly! )
I believe Australia did away with PR’s voting back in the 1980’s and I know for a fact you can not stand for political office there if you have more than one citizenship.
Absolutely agree!
Only a Citizen of New Zealand should have the very valuable right to vote in elections.
Make this obvious logic into law.
Now!
Winston can campaignon this all he likes. Which other party will support it though?
More dog whistle from Winnie. Ger in behind ya mongrels
Why worry about that ‘democratic’ right to vote, yet after every election those elected see it as their mandate to do whatever they see fit. Soon all Local and Regional Councils will have disappeared anyway, so no say locally, and Central Govt will be run by the WEF, UN and WHO and the elite, including those genocidalists. Save your energy and seek real change.
Winston is right. But I would go a little further. When political parties campaign, they never reveal their full agendas. I would make it, if you didn’t campaign on it, a full referendum must be held. Works for peaceful Switzerland. Holds referendums 4 times a year.