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Coates wasn't talking out of turn, he was revealing Greens' actual strategy: Edwards

Political commentator says a second Green MP told him that threatening to "go nuclear" will be the party's only real leverage in post-election negotiations.

Thu, 13 Jul 2017

Barry Coates wasn't so much talking out of turn when he said the Greens might threaten to force another election when faced with the prospect of a Labour-NZ First coalition as revealing his party's post-election negotiating strategy.

So says political commentator Bryce Edwards, who tells NBR

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