Can an election really be fair if one party has four times more money than the other?The Spinoff Daily, Thursday August 29
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Max Rashbrooke: “Our elections are not fought on a level playing field. That’s the inescapable conclusion from the first-ever look behind the veil of secrecy that has traditionally shrouded the finances of our main political parties. Until now, parties’ accounts have largely remained confidential, on the basis that civil-society bodies are entitled to a fair degree of privacy about their activities and levels of funding. But under a law change brought in by former justice minister Kiri Allan, they now have to publish their annual accounts. So what do the accounts show us? Most obviously, a massive resource imbalance between our two biggest parties, National and Labour. On pretty much every financial measure, the right is smashing the left.”
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Can an election really be fair if one party has four times more money than the other?
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