{"id":69786,"date":"2025-10-10T10:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/69786\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:51:08","slug":"another-senior-green-party-staffer-departs-as-louis-day-resigns-from-communications-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/69786\/","title":{"rendered":"Another senior Green Party staffer departs as Louis Day resigns from communications role"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI will then be using the remainder of my notice period to tie up some loose ends in the background.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been a pleasure and a privilege working with you all. Hopefully, this won\u2019t be the last you hear from me.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to his LinkedIn, Day started his director of communications role in June 2024 after working as a senior press secretary, press secretary and research and policy adviser.<\/p>\n

The Greens were already shaken up recently with the departure of Prestidge-Oldfield as their chief of staff.<\/p>\n

Greens co-leader Marama Davidson said Prestidge-Oldfield had \u201cdecided to step away from the chief of staff position to focus on her health, wellbeing and her wh\u0101nau\u201d.<\/p>\n

Tom Haig, the party\u2019s policy and research director, would be the acting chief of staff until the position was permanently filled.<\/p>\n

This is the latest in what has been a tumultuous parliamentary term for the Green Party.<\/p>\n

\"FootageFootage emerged of former Green MP Golriz Ghahraman allegedly stealing a designer handbag from a Ponsonby boutique Scotties.<\/p>\n

In January 2024, it was revealed that MP Golriz Ghahraman was caught in a $9000 shoplifting spree<\/a>, which led to her resignation.<\/p>\n

Tragedy struck a month later with the sudden death of Fa\u2019an\u0101n\u0101 Efeso Collins<\/a>, prompting tributes from across the political spectrum.<\/p>\n

In March last year, MP Darleen Tana was suspended amid an investigation into claims of migrant exploitation<\/a> at her husband\u2019s e-bike business.<\/p>\n

Tana\u2019s ties to the alleged exploitation remained murky, but it prompted her to split from the Greens before being kicked out of Parliament after her party used the waka-jumping legislation it had previously opposed.<\/p>\n

\"Chl\u00f6eChl\u00f6e Swarbrick has been co-leader of the Greens since March 2024. Photo \/ Mark Mitchell<\/p>\n

In the same month Tana\u2019s suspension occurred, Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick rose to become the party\u2019s co-leader beside Marama Davidson, replacing James Shaw, who in turn retired from politics in May of last year.<\/p>\n

Celebrations of his career were cut short, though, after MP Julie Anne Genter was referred to Parliament\u2019s Privileges Committee<\/a> for displaying intimidatory behaviour towards Government minister Matt Doocey.<\/p>\n

Co-leader Davidson revealed in June 2024 that she was beginning treatment for breast cancer and would step away from politics to focus on her recovery, but has since returned to normal duties.<\/p>\n

More recently, New Zealand\u2019s first non-binary MP, Benjamin Doyle, suddenly resigned in September<\/a> after controversial old Instagram posts were unearthed which resulted in death threats against them.<\/p>\n

\"GreenGreen Party MP Benjamin Doyle resigned from Parliament in September. Photo \/ Mark Mitchell <\/p>\n

In their valedictory speech, Doyle described Parliament as being \u201cthe colonisers\u2019 house\u201d, built on \u201cexclusion and control, on taking, hoarding, and guarding power\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis place is hostile and toxic, especially if you are not a cis straight white man with a blue suit and a briefcase, but most of all, it is not fit for purpose,\u201d Doyle said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI will then be using the remainder of my notice period to tie up some loose ends in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,9526,806,3937,8555,5972,14134,24179,3936,23904,71,2518,42,5511,22050,1362,43,55630,4762,7234,55631,18994,17363,205,4514,5843,1516,55629,40,38,41,39,4518],"class_list":["post-69786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-another","tag-as","tag-chief","tag-communications","tag-day","tag-decision","tag-departs","tag-director","tag-eliza","tag-from","tag-green","tag-headlines","tag-just","tag-louis","tag-made","tag-news","tag-nowformer","tag-party","tag-partys","tag-prestidgeoldfield","tag-resigned","tag-resigns","tag-role","tag-same","tag-senior","tag-staff","tag-staffer","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-weeks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69786","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=69786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}