{"id":630253,"date":"2026-10-14T10:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T10:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/630253\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T10:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T10:04:09","slug":"watch-again-tvnz-multi-party-debate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/630253\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch again: TVNZ Multi-Party Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breakfast presenter Tova O\u2019Brien hosted the TVNZ Multi-Party Debate. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/tvseries\/1-news-multi-party-debate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch it back here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/10\/11\/election-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">live updates of the debate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ACT leader David Seymour, Green Party co-leader Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori co-leader Rawiri Waititi and Opportunity leader Qiulae Wong took part.<\/p>\n<p>A combination of those parties is likely to be needed for either Labour or National to form a government after the November 7 election.<\/p>\n<p>The latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/10\/13\/poll-hipkins-and-luxon-now-neck-and-neck-opportunity-on-track-for-10-mps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">1News Verian poll<\/a> was released this evening with the Greens still in a strong position and Opportunity heading to Parliament if the results are repeated on November 7.<\/p>\n<p>The Multi-Party Debate was on TVNZ 1, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/tvseries\/1-news-leaders-debate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TVNZ+<\/a> and 1News.co.nz from 7-8.30pm followed by half an hour of analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Watch last week&#8217;s Leaders Debate between Labour&#8217;s Chris Hipkins and National&#8217;s Christopher Luxon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/tvseries\/1-news-leaders-debate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breakfast presenter Tova O\u2019Brien hosted the TVNZ Multi-Party Debate. Watch it back here. See live updates of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28921,69543,111,137,43,139,69,271022,135,8027,270122],"class_list":["post-630253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-act-party","tag-green-party","tag-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand-first","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-opportunity-party","tag-politics","tag-te-pati-maori","tag-vote-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630253","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=630253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}