"Wong said all options were on the table: a coalition, a confidence and supply agreement, or sitting on the cross benches.
For Opportunity to form a coalition, Wong said the party would need to feel 'very confident' in the overall direction of the government."
#LaurenCrimp, 2026
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Will be intrigued to see if Opportunity walk the talk on this. But as well as being a clever pre-negotiation posture, this comes across as more principled than Dunne or Peters' attitude to holding the casting votes, where they would definitely be in government whoever was leading it.
The whole situation reminds me so much of Key not quite needing the Māori parties votes in 2011 (or was it 2008, or 2014?). Except it looks like TOP are clever enough not to let themselves be token add-ons.
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