Posts Tagged ‘caretaker government’

The long wait

Written By: - Date published: 9:47 am, October 16th, 2023 - 57 comments

As it stands right now with the indecisive election result, we’re probably into having a caretaker government for some time. The election results after the special votes are targeted to be declared on November 3rd. The last day for the writ is on November 9th.It may then take some time to form a governing number of seats in parliament.

NRT: The caretaker convention and elections

Written By: - Date published: 4:17 pm, September 2nd, 2014 - 5 comments

There was an interesting discussion between Dean Knight and Graeme Edgeler about the caretaker convention and elections. Dean highlighted the fact that Key had a perfect right to call for whatever sort of inquiry prior to an election. Edgeler disputed this, on the basis that the Prime Minister could not be said to enjoy the confidence of the House, because there wasn’t one.

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