Kim Dotcom during the press conference at the Moment of truth event. Photograph / Brett Phibbs
The Internet Party has announced plans to contest September's election - at the same time distancing itself from internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom.
In a release published on its website, the Internet Party said Dotcom had resigned from its executive committee and is not involved in the campaign committee for 2017,
or the party's operational decision-making.
"As such, Kim Dotcom has no advance knowledge that we are issuing this statement."
Dotcom has retweeted the Internet Party's announcement.
The Internet Mana alliance received just 1.42 per cent of the vote at the last election, following the Moment of Truth gathering organised by Dotcom in the Auckland Town Hall a week before the vote.
