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The Green Party released its list today, confirming its top seven spots go to its seven MPs.
Party co-leader Rod Donald said recently that Maori resource management lawyer Metiria Turei, 32, would be in the top 10 and today she was confirmed in the number eight spot.
Nelson candidate Mike Ward, a former Values Party co-leader and Nelson City Councillor, is at number nine while peace activist and anti-mining campaigner Catherine Delahunty is number 10.
On current polling, the Greens would get 11 or 12 MPs in a new Parliament.
This would see Green Party policy co-ordinator Roland Sapsford (No 11) and possibly 50-year-old pesticides campaigner Meriel Watts (No 12) part of the 120-seat Parliament.
The Green Party is aiming to double its party vote result from the last election to 10 per cent at the July 27 election.
If it achieves that Cambridge University-educated Jon Carapiet who has worked as a writer, artist, researcher and brand consultant, at No 13, and West Coast-Tasman candidate Richard Davies (No 14) could also get in.
Wellington City Councillor Celia Wade-Brown is No 15.
Co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said today she was delighted to announce the party had selected five women among the top 10 candidates and 10 among the top 20.
The Green Party was doing more than paying lip service to gender equity, she said.
The party had delivered a vote of confidence in its seven MPs by placing them again in the top seven spots.
"We have five Maori amongst the top 30 candidates and a wide range of ages, skills and backgrounds," she said.
"This list will deliver the infusion of fresh faces and fresh thinking that Parliament badly needs."
Mr Donald said the party was on course to double its party vote from the 5.2 per cent it got at the last election. That would give it another seven MPs, he said.
"We hope voters look closely at our policies and that they look even more closely at our people, because they are the ones who will deliver those policies," he said in a statement.
Candidates were listed by a postal ballot of all party members.
The Green Party list released today:
1 - Jeanette Fitzsimons, co-leader
2 - Rod Donald, co-leader
3 - Sue Bradford, Green MP
4 - Nandor Tanczos, Green MP
5 - Sue Kedgley, Green MP
6 - Ian Ewen-Street, Green MP
7 - Keith Locke, Green MP
8 - Metiria Turei, Maori resource management lawyer
9 - Mike Ward, former Values Party co-leader and Nelson city councillor
10 - Catherine Delahunty, anti-mining campaigner
11 - Roland Sapsford, co-ordinator of the Green Party policy and research group
12 - Meriel Watts, director Soil and Health Association, pesticides campaigner
13 - Jon Carapiet, consumer advocate, researcher, writer, artist
14 - Richard Davies, former secondary teacher
15 - Celia Wade-Brown, Wellington city councillor
16 - Cathy Olsen, 22-year-old Waikato Student Union past president
17 - Russel Norman, parliamentary secretary to MP Sue Bradford
18 - Janine McVeagh, writer, publisher and teacher
19 - Steffan Browning, marine farm activist
20 - Dayle Belcher, union organiser for Service and Food Workers Union
21 - Kei Clendon
22 - Craig Potton
23 - David Musgrave
24 - Deborah Martin
25 - Te Ruruanga Te Keeti
26 - Stephen Abel
27 - Sarah Millington
28 - Calvin Green
29 - Caro Henckels
30 - Fliss Butcher
The Green Party then lists 34 candidates in "30-plus" spots and does not give them individual rankings.
- NZPA
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