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"National has usually not faced such constraints, and this term has had coalition partners who are explicitly anti-democratic and anti-constitutional. The lesson for voters is not to let that happen again, and to punish those parties until they credibly commit to respecting a democratic, consultative style of government."
@norightturnnz, 2025
https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-problem-is-regime-not-mmp.html
Well put.
"We need to shift power away from the over-mighty parliament (and the over-mighty executive which pulls its strings and uses it as a rubber-stamp), and move it back to voters, to local government, to the Waitangi Tribunal, and to the courts."
@norightturnnz, 2025
https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-problem-is-regime-not-mmp.html
Agreed, and the only way to do this is through a formal constitutional process. One that will prevent a future executive just reversing it all and recentralising the power into their own hands. How to start?
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