WELLINGTON - Senior members of New Zealand's centre-right National Party will meet Sunday (Oct 15) afternoon to plan forming a coalition government after National and the ACT Party won a slim majority in Saturday's general election that could be eroded when official votes are in.
Prime Minister-elect Christopher Luxon, 53, a former airline executive who has only been in parliament for three years, said National's strategy team would gather this afternoon to map out how the party wants to approach negotiations but that he was clear that these talks would happen behind closed doors.
The conservative National Party won 50 seats and the ACT Party won 11, securing a majority of just one seat in the 121-seat parliament, according to provisional results from the Electoral Commission. If National and ACT do lose a seat they would not have enough seats to form a government and would need to reach an agreement with the populist party New Zealand First. Luxon has not yet spoken to leader Winston Peters but has said he is prepared to work with them to form a stable government.
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