Dunne, not done.

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  • čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
  • United Future leader, Peter Dunne has said he plans to stand for election again next year.
    Speaking on TV3's The Nation, Mr Dunne said he saw "no reason why not" to stand for re-election.
    "At this stage I see no reason why not. It's a year away, I'm getting really good support locally - so yeah, why not?"
    If elected Mr Dunne says United Future will work with parties who have "policy compatibility". However, Mr Dunne says his party's opposition to capital gains tax was a non-negotiable, meaning forming government alongside a Labour-Greens coalition unlikely.
    "At the end of the day when you're forming government you want to form governments not of convenience, but where people actually agree on what you're going to do, " he says.
    "Now you had a discussion earlier, for instance, about a capital gains tax, which the Labour Party proposes, and something we strongly oppose, so I wouldn't want to be part of a Government that is bringing in policies like that, that I was opposed to."
    However his plans for a more flexible superannuation scheme, and his opposition to the Government's planned changes for the Resource Management Act also put him at odds with the National Party too.
    "Now I think there is a good case to be made for streamlining and speeding up those [RMA] processes but what the Government is seeking to do is say ' in addition to doing that, we basically want to re-jig the whole set of principles so that the environment doesn't become the backdrop - it becomes just one factor alongside economic development and others to be taken into account.
    "And I think that's wrong.... and that's currently where we have a stalemate."
    He described his current relationship with the Government as "professional", but "Not as close as it once was".
    Prime Minister John Key removed him as a Minister during the leaked GCSB scandal earlier this year.
    Mr Dunne says it is up to the Prime Minister to tell him how he could recover his Ministerial portfolios, as the Prime Minister had already done for other dismissed Minister, ACT leader, John Banks.
    "I've expressed a little bit of consternation that in Mr Bank's case, and I'm not really arguing that, he's said 'well acquittal brings you back'.
    "But he's been less equivocal in my case - I'm a bit annoyed about that. But look ultimately look that's a matter for the Prime Minister, and I'm not going to get into pre-guessing what he might, or might not do."

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