Labour, National, The Green Party, The Maori
Party, and ACT have paid the full amounts identified by the
Controller and Auditor-General as being outside the scope of
appropriation after the 2005 general election.
This
Labour led Government has two Coalition Partners, whose
leaders are both ministers of the crown, who have not repaid
the amounts identified.
While Mr Peters has recently
announced that NZ First would pay in full within three
weeks, have we seen an undertaking from Mr Dunne as to when
United Future will repay their outstanding $33,000 plus
gst.
Did Mr Dunne just retain his revenue portfolio in the
latest cabinet portfolio shuffle?
“This was a blatant
and flagrant breach of our electoral law. In spite of
retrospective legislation we still do not have a conclusion
to this sad and sorry saga,” says Republicans constitution
spokesman Wayne Hawkins.
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