It looks as though the ACC and Pharmac Chair will keep his job after criticising the National Party.
Steve Maharey is in a similar position to that of dismissed public servant Rob Campbell, however the Prime Minister says Campbell went further and the pair aren't in the same category.
Former politician and political commentator Peter Dunne says if you're serving the Government, you need to be impartial.
"But he's been going out there and actively shooting his impartiality, just as Campbell was. Campbell gets sacked, Maharey looks like he might survive. And that just seems to me to be a complete and utter shambles."
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