PM welcomes official election results
Saturday, 1 October 2005, 11:25 am
Press Release: New Zealand Government
1 October 2005
PM welcomes official election
results
Prime Minister Helen Clark today welcomed the
confirmation of the election night results, and a final vote
for Labour which saw it poll within 0.16 per cent of its
share of the 2002 vote.
“As I said on election night, the
result of voting appeared to give the Labour Party the
opportunity to begin negotiations to form a new government,”
Helen Clark said.
“This has been confirmed by the
declaration today of the final result.
“Discussions have
been occurring in the past two weeks with the aim of forming
working relationships between Labour and other parties.
“I
now look forward to engaging further with those parties that
have expressed a willingness to discuss arrangements with
us.
“Further talks to progress arrangements around forming
a government are likely to be held in the coming week,”
Helen Clark
said.
ENDS
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