The Young
Nationals today announced they have been successful in a bid
to hold the 2008 International Young Democrat Union
(“IYDU”) Conference in Wellington. The IYDU is a
global alliance of 80 centre right political youth
organisations from 50 countries.
Around 100 Young
MPs and political leaders from around the world will
converge on Wellington in November 2008 for the four day
conference.
“This is a huge achievement for the
Young Nats, and for Wellington” says Young Nats Acting
President Alex Mitchell.
“The IYDU Conference is
held in a different country each year, most recently
Estonia. For the Young Nats to have secured this event for
Wellington and New Zealand is fantastic”.
The
conference is likely to include some discussion on the
effect of what will soon be the Electoral Finance Act.
“Our eastern European colleagues particularly, have
said they are very interested in studying the impact of the
Electoral Finance Act, as they say they have a lot of
experience with such laws in their past.”
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