{"id":196642,"date":"2025-12-22T16:39:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/196642\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T16:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:39:16","slug":"finance-minister-nicola-willis-not-standing-for-electorate-seat-at-election-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/196642\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister Nicola Willis not standing for electorate seat at election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Willis said the economy was growing again and inflation had come down as a result of the Government\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe cannot take our recovery for granted. Labour have been clear &#8211; 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<p><img  alt=\"Finance Minister Nicola Willis. Photo \/ Mark Mitchell\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Finance Minister Nicola Willis. Photo \/ Mark Mitchell<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWith 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<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to supporting Christopher Luxon and National MPs and candidates around NZ to campaign for and win the party vote at next year\u2019s general election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">O\u2019Connor has said he intends to continue his political career, but will not challenge Labour colleague Barbara Edmonds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">-RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI am honoured to have the support of the National Party Board to campaign across New Zealand to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1975,5903,42678,246,2082,42,6722,43,20484,5006,20157,11763,7248,11767,40,38,41,39,792],"class_list":["post-196642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-at","tag-election","tag-electorate","tag-finance","tag-for","tag-headlines","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-nicola","tag-not","tag-palmer","tag-russell","tag-seat","tag-standing","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-willis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196642","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=196642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}