Local Focus: Who is Fletcher Tabuteau, NZ First candidate for Rotorua?

New Zealand First MP Fletcher Tabuteau is the party's candidate for the Rotorua electorate.

While in office he has served as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Regional Economic Development, Foreign Affairs, and Disarmament and Arms Control.

In this Local Focus video, Tabuteau talks about growing up in Rotorua and his hopes for managing the region out of the economic hardship it currently faces following Covid-19.

When subjected to the pop culture quiz he reveals to his own surprise that he'd prefer Kanye over Jay-Z.

Tabuteau later explains his greatest legacy is formulating the Provincial Growth Fund, which has been a significant coalition policy in the last term of government.

Also standing in the Rotorua electorate:

• Pete Kirkwood for ACT

• Alan Tāne Solomon for the New Conservatives

• Karri-Ann Vercoe-Black for One party

• Kiri Ward for Advance NZ

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