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Speaker 1: So the Willington mayoral races, taking a turn of the

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Speaker 1: incumbent's gone Tory finales pulled the plug and throne who

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Speaker 1: support behind Andrew Little. The former Wellington mayor, Dame Kerry

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Speaker 1: prientergrasters with us. Kerry, morning to you, Good morning to you.

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Speaker 1: Given all that's happened to the city in the last

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Speaker 1: few years, do you think this is going to drive

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Speaker 1: bigger turnout, more interest in general?

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Speaker 2: One would hope. So, I mean the bad news is

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Speaker 2: three one two mayors is not good for Wellington. We

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Speaker 2: need stability. We need somebody with good governance experience, someone

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Speaker 2: who understands the importance of working with government. We need

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Speaker 2: someone who can pull a team together and lead our

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Speaker 2: city with honesty and integrity. Because when we see polls

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Speaker 2: earlier this year that so show forty eight percent have

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Speaker 2: lost trust in Wellington City and forty eight percent of

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Speaker 2: lat confidence and decision making. There has to be something

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Speaker 2: done to turn our city back to the way it was,

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Speaker 2: get our mojo back, that's what we want.

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Speaker 1: Having said that, does this open now the field for

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Speaker 1: a classic left right split or not?

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Speaker 2: I think it does. Andrew Little's key put his hand up.

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Speaker 2: He's clearly been a labor Minister of the Crown. There

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Speaker 2: are a number of center center right candidates standing. We

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Speaker 2: have STV here, so I think what you will see

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Speaker 2: is that with the Greens bowing out in favor of

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Speaker 2: Andrew Little, does.

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Speaker 1: The party endorsement that we've seen so far does that

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Speaker 1: help or hinder?

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Speaker 2: You mean for Andrew Little?

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Speaker 1: I mean now the Greens in central government being involved

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Speaker 1: in local politics.

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Speaker 2: Well, personally I don't believe in party politics at local

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Speaker 2: government level, but it is certainly crept and strongly, particularly

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Speaker 2: in Wellington over the last decade or so, and you

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Speaker 2: do need to work with central government. Andrew would have

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Speaker 2: that advantage. There are lots of rumors about why Tory

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Speaker 2: stepped aside. Did she not get the Green endorsement? Did

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Speaker 2: polling show she wasn't going to win? We will wait

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Speaker 2: and see. There won't be any endorsement I suspect from

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Speaker 2: any of their candidates on the center scent right.

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Speaker 1: Good Insight appreciate it very much, Dame Kerrie prendergastwhen we're

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Speaker 1: willing to mirror, and of course we mustn't forget this

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Speaker 1: endless focus we seem to place on MEAs as though

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Speaker 1: they're presidents. They're just a single vote in the council.

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Speaker 1: You can vote for whoever you want. They don't get

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Speaker 1: the council they want. It's a problem.

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