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"Economics at play": Slipping polls reflect Kiwis' financial concerns

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 11 Feb 2025, 8:57am
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"Economics at play": Slipping polls reflect Kiwis' financial concerns

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 11 Feb 2025, 8:57am

National's power in the polls looks to be shifting. 

Both the Taxpayers' Union-Curia poll and the 1News-Verian poll show the left bloc has the numbers to form a government if an election was held today. 

Both also have Christopher Luxon losing support in the preferred Prime Minister stakes. 

Curia pollster David Farrar told Mike Hosking people heard the bad economic news in December and are now unsure if the country will get out of it. 

He interprets the poll as people not abandoning the Government out of anger, but rather waiting to see what happens next.  

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