Tuesday, 24 June 2008, 10:17 am Press Release: The Kiwi Party
Plenty of time to organise a referendum June 24, 2008
Kiwi Party leader and organiser of the petition for a
referendum on the anti-smacking law Larry Baldock says there
is plenty of time to hold the referendum at this years
election.
"Claims by the Prime Minister reported in the
Herald today that there is not enough time to get things
organised are ridiculous," said Mr Baldock.
The
confirmation of the success of the petition must be given by
the Clerk of the House no later than August 23rd. "You
can't tell me that it will take more than 2 months to
organise one simple question to be added to the ballot
paper," said Mr Baldock.
"If the Labour party's fortunes
were to suddenly improve in the polls the Prime Minister
would have no qualms whatsoever in calling an early election
and she would have everyone pulling out all the stops to get
this organised on time," he
said.
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