{"id":195659,"date":"2025-12-22T01:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/195659\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T01:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:39:13","slug":"finance-minister-nicola-willis-not-standing-for-electorate-seat-at-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/195659\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister Nicola Willis not standing for electorate seat at election"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo: RNZ \/ Samuel Rillstone\n<\/p>\n

Finance Minister Nicola Willis will not be standing for an electorate seat at the next election.<\/p>\n

At the last election, Willis campaigned for the Wellington electorate of \u014ch\u0101riu, which was narrowly won by Labour’s Greg O’Connor with 17,565 votes to Willis’ 16,305.<\/p>\n

The electorate will next year be split<\/a> into the new seats of Kenepuru and K\u0101piti, which replace Mana and \u014ctaki.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Willis – who is also National’s deputy leader and has been confirmed as a list-only candidate – said she would campaign across New Zealand to re-elect a National government.<\/p>\n

“I am honoured to have the support of the National Party Board to campaign across New Zealand to help re-elect a National Government focused on fixing the basics and building the future,” she said.<\/p>\n

Willis said the economy was growing again and inflation had come down as a result of the government’s plan.<\/p>\n

“We cannot take our recovery for granted. Labour have been clear – their plan is to tax more, borrow more, and spend more, leaving us worse off and jeopardising what all Kiwis have worked so hard for.<\/p>\n

“With the economy recovering, exports at a record high and a new planning system on the way New Zealand is in safe hands under a National Government.<\/p>\n

“I’m looking forward to supporting Christopher Luxon and National MPs and candidates around NZ to campaign for and win the Party Vote at next year’s General Election.”<\/p>\n

O’Connor has said he intends to continue his political career, but will not challenge Labour colleage Barbara Edmonds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: RNZ \/ Samuel Rillstone Finance Minister Nicola Willis will not be standing for an electorate seat at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-195659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}