New Zealand Public Party

New Zealand Public Party
FounderBilly Te Kahika
Founded11 June 2020 (2020-06-11)
Dissolved19 February 2021 (2021-02-19)
IdeologyRight-wing populism, Isolationism[1]
International affiliationNone
MPs in the House of Representatives
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Website
nzpublicparty.org.nz

The New Zealand Public Party was a short-lived political party in New Zealand led by Billy Te Kahika. It was founded in June 2020, and two months later became a component party of registered party Advance New Zealand in order to contest the 2020 election.[2] Advance received only 1.0% of the party vote and neither Advance nor Public won any electorate seats, so the Public Party did not win any representation in Parliament.[3] The Public Party split from Advance shortly after the election acrimoniously,[4][5][6] and Public's party secretary and director both resigned in January 2021.[7]

The party was "conspiracy theory driven",[8] opposing the United Nations, 5G technology, 1080 poison, fluoridation, and electromagnets.[9] It spreads misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic and aims to repeal the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020, the primary legal mechanism for fighting the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand.[10][11][12]

In mid–February 2021, after briefly renaming it the New Zealand Freedom Party, Te Kahika announced that he was shutting down the party to focus on activism.[13][14]

  1. ^ "New Zealand Public Party kicks off". Māori Television. Archived from the original on 29 July 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2020. This pandemic has been the very cause that globalist global leaders needed to usher in the United Nations UN agendas 21 and 30, which are the greatest challenges to the personal liberties and freedoms of all human beings on Earth. These programs will force all humans into a funnel of control centralizing every aspect of human life of the requirements necessary for us to live, breathe, eat, and function... This was further validated entrenched by a list of billionaires who have developed the technology to develop weaponised viruses, to patent the those viruses and the contents that make up those viruses, and have also patented and designed and developed the very solution to the cures of vaccination to defeat the said viruses that they have created under their funding and under their desire to enslave humanity and a health system that means health only exists at the end of a needle... And while Jacinda Ardern is handing out the lollies, and keeping us all happy with promises of a better future, she knowingly is inching millimetre by millimetre, inch by inch, to being able to introduce these agendas that are so foreign to our hearts and minds.
  2. ^ "Register of political parties | Elections". Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 1 June 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  3. ^ "2020 General Election and Referendums - Preliminary Count". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  4. ^ "Billy Te Kahika's NZPP and Jami-Lee Ross's Advance NZ go their separate ways". 1 News. 26 October 2020. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
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  8. ^ Marc Daalder (26 July 2020). "Jami-Lee Ross hitches wagon to conspiracy theorists". Newsroom. Archived from the original on 2 August 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  9. ^ "Ex-National MP Jami-Lee Ross joins forces with controversial party in hope of forming a new Alliance party". New Zealand Herald. 26 July 2020. Archived from the original on 28 August 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  10. ^ "Jami-Lee Ross' newly formed alliance with NZ Public Party aims to repeal Govt's Covid-19 Response Bill". 1News. 26 July 2020. Archived from the original on 31 July 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  11. ^ "COVID-19 gives Billy TK the UN red flag blues". Waatea News. 9 July 2020. Archived from the original on 10 July 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  12. ^ Mark Peters (10 July 2020). "Global 'plandemic'". Gisborne Herald. Archived from the original on 28 August 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  13. ^ "Billy Te Kahika quits politics, shuts down New Zealand Public Party". Radio New Zealand. 19 February 2021. Archived from the original on 19 February 2021. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  14. ^ "Freedom Party leader Billy Te Kahika says he is quitting politics". The New Zealand Herald. 19 February 2021. Archived from the original on 19 February 2021. Retrieved 19 February 2021.