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MEMORANDUM

TO: Qiulae ‘Q’ Wong RE: An Opportunity for the Opportunity Party

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Chris Trotter
Feb 13, 2026
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ACCORDING TO THE LATEST Taxpayers’ Union-Curia Poll, the Opportunity Party is still languishing below 2 percent – well short of the 5 percent MMP threshold.

Frankly, Q, I can’t see it rising much above that level between now and the general election in November.

This is a real shame because if ever New Zealand needed a circuit-breaker party, a political force capable of extracting vitally needed reforms from the established political parties, it is now.

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