Winston Peters will be deputy prime minister for the first half of the parliamentary term, with David Seymour taking over for the remainder, as the new government reveals its ministerial lineup.
Watch the announcement here:
Peters will be Foreign Minister, with David Seymour taking on the new role of Minister of Regulation.
The next Cabinet will have 20 members; 14 National ministers, three ACT ministers and three New Zealand First ministers.
Nicola Willis will be Minister of Finance, Brooke van Velden will be Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety and Shane Jones will be Minister for Regional Development.
In terms of ministers outside Cabinet, there will be five from National, two from ACT and one from New Zealand First.
ACT and New Zealand First will each have one Parliamentary Under-Secretary.
The announcement comes 41 days after the election.
The negotiations were the second-longest in New Zealand's MMP history, behind only 1996, when New Zealand First was in a 'kingmaker' position.
Follow the latest with RNZ's live blog below:
7 comments
The Circus Begins
Posted on 24-11-2023 11:58 | By @###
Cant wait for next election certain people need to go. How lovely they get to share deputy role - yeh nah
The Circus tent is up and open
Posted on 24-11-2023 14:03 | By 2up
Sit back and enjoy the show.
Luxon hasn't got a chance, and as usual National will deliver nothing.
?
Posted on 24-11-2023 14:12 | By andr3wr89
How can Luxon let Winston Peter's anywhere near the Deputy Prime Minister Role. Atleast we now know he's not as great a negotiator as he made himself out to be. Still though.. anybody is better than the circus act running the country over the last few years.
Best news in 6 years
Posted on 24-11-2023 14:21 | By jed
Finally, hopefully we are in for some good government! I've never seen New Zealand in such a poor state, with education, crime, and health all in crisis! My son waited almost a year to see an ENT specialist -- and when we finally did, the specialist he saw was bought in from another city to try and clear the backlog of referrals.
Yes…….
Posted on 24-11-2023 16:33 | By Shadow1
The coalition I’ve been talking about for a year. No single party to dance off singing “I’ve got a mandate “. Every decision these guys make will have to be worked for so there will be no overnight decisions. We now have a large group of good politicians to choose for our Ministers. Personally I can’t wait to see how it works out.
I know how you feel Jed.
I’m especially interested to see how the new Minister for Local Government will deal with democracy in Tauranga.
Shadow1
Now, Get To Work
Posted on 25-11-2023 07:12 | By Thats Nice
Winston obviously demanded to be deputy and Luxon would have had no choice but oh well, that's MMP. Time will tell if 3 heads are better than one but obviously Luxon will have the final say. I'm not too sure where folk have been if they think things can get worse than the last 6 years??? From that point of view, this is fantastic news so now get to work and fix our country because sadly it's not in a good way.
These three...
Posted on 25-11-2023 13:36 | By morepork
... are good men (with good political experience and reasonability) who are committed to the principles of democratic Government, by the people, with a level playing field for all. They will "keep each other honest" as they work out details of legislation, but they are all on the same page and singing from the same sheet. This is the result I was hoping for and I am very relieved to see it happen. (Also, I don't need to emigrate and that's a relief as well... :-)) Not surprised to see Hipkins already attacking on the nebulous front that "they will cause division amongst people" (as if his Government, and Jacinda before him, never did?). At least the clandestine replacement of democracy by tribal tikanga, where there can be no dissent (The Boss decrees what will happen) has been forestalled. Now, sack the Commissioners.
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