It's the end of the road for NZ First as the political party, and its longstanding leader Winston Peters, are voted out of Government. As New Zealand First tried to fight off electoral oblivion, a WR Peters put his money where Winston’s mouth was, Sam Sachdeva reports. New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, or someone with the identical initials and home base, appears to have lent the party $60,000 in the dying days of the election campaign, new documents show. The Electoral Commission’s register of party loans exceeding $30,000 shows New Zealand First has declared a $60,000 loan from a WR Peters in Whananaki (Winston Raymond Peters, as the veteran politician is formally known, has a retreat in the Northland settlement). The form provided by the party shows Peters initially lent it $50,000 on October 6, before providing another $10,000 the following day.

Source: Stuff October 21, 2020 16:30 UTC