{"id":498986,"date":"2026-06-28T01:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/498986\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T01:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:41:13","slug":"brooke-van-veldens-replacement-to-be-named-at-acts-annual-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/498986\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooke van Velden&#8217;s replacement to be named at ACT&#8217;s annual meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expect loud pink shirts and loud rebuttals to political friends and foes alike at the ACT party&#8217;s annual meeting at Shed 10 in Auckland today.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called rally is set to reveal the new deputy leader to replace Brooke van Velden, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/politics\/590461\/act-party-deputy-and-minister-brooke-van-velden-retires-from-politics\" class=\"underline-brand-hover visited:text-foreground-secondary hover:visited:text-foreground-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quitting Parliament<\/a> at the election.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever is named in the role will give a speech early Sunday afternoon, to be followed by the announcement of a major new policy as part of a speech from leader David Seymour.<\/p>\n<p>A former aide to Canada&#8217;s Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre is organising, with plans for a stage in the middle of the crowd like a boxing ring, with a mood the party expected to be modern, energetic and fun.<\/p>\n<p>Having similarly disrupted announcements from Christopher Luxon and Chris Hipkins, the then-candidate for the Destiny Church-linked Vision NZ snuck in wearing a false moustache and began yelling shortly after Seymour began his speech in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Seymour this year will again be competing for attention, with Labour&#8217;s annual meeting also taking place today at the T\u0101kina convention centre in Wellington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Expect loud pink shirts and loud rebuttals to political friends and foes alike at the ACT party&#8217;s annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-498986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498986","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=498986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}