{"id":622854,"date":"2026-10-07T02:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/622854\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T02:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:34:09","slug":"nz-first-unveils-party-list-with-new-candidates-leapfrogging-current-caucus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/622854\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ First unveils party list with new candidates leapfrogging current caucus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">New Zealand First leader Winston Peters. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">New Zealand First has unveiled its party list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">There are new candidates who have rocketed to high rankings: Alfred Ngaro, Michael Laws, Harete Hipango-Brownlie, Craig Stobo and Taine Randell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Those candidates are ranked above sitting MPs Jenny Marcroft, Andy Foster, David Wilson and Jamie Arbuckle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         A brief press release described<br \/>\n         the list as \u201ca formidable line-up of experienced, talented, and principled leaders ready to put New Zealanders First\u201d.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"INdwqXkrxOG\" style=\"display:none\">Last night\u2019s 1News-Verian poll would give NZ First 12 seats in Parliament. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand First leader Winston Peters. Photo \/ NZME New Zealand First has unveiled its party list. There&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21323,173554,7123,1888,306342,10005,117,111,43,139,69,4762,15142,11743,102,80],"class_list":["post-622854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-candidates","tag-caucus","tag-current","tag-first","tag-leapfrogging","tag-list","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-party","tag-unveiled","tag-unveils","tag-with","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622854","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=622854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}