The Opportunities Party candidate for Bay of Plenty, Chris Jenkins, spends his working days crunching numbers and analysing the data – something he says any government should do more of before making decisions.
"[TOP] are led by an economist, founded by economists and that's exactly what we need right now," he said.
"We need people who can look at an economy, look at a world that is struggling and put things in place that can actually bring New Zealand into the future and bring a little bit of that Kiwi ingenuity back to the forefront of the world."
