WELLINGTON
\nNew Zealand\u2019s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon called general elections for November 7 on Wednesday, touting his government\u2019s record on the economy and crime.
\nLuxon said the election date, which lands a month after the All Blacks play at home against Australia, was swayed in part by the sports-mad country\u2019s fixtures.
\nThe latest Taxpayers Union\/Curia survey released last month gave the opposition Labour Party a narrow lead of 31.6 percent to 30.0 percent over Luxon\u2019s conservative National Party. But the poll indicated that Luxon\u2019s coalition government would still remain in power, based on those figures, with the support of its partner parties.
\nLuxon vowed that his government would \u201cdeliver on our plan to fix the basics\u201d.
\n\u201cWhen we took office the country was going in the wrong direction, and it\u2019s taken a lot of hard work in the last two years to start turning things around,\u201d the prime minister told reporters.
\n\u201cThe economy is picking up, with increasing business and consumer confidence, building and manufacturing taking off, and exports doing incredibly well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WELLINGTON New Zealand\u2019s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon called general elections for November 7 on Wednesday, touting his government\u2019s record on the economy and crime. Luxon said the election date, which lands a month after the All Blacks play at home against Australia, was swayed in part by the sports-mad country\u2019s fixtures. The latest Taxpayers Union\/Curia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-526969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n