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Four-year parliamentary term legislation to be introduced, would go to referendum (www.rnz.co.nz)

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Anyone have thoughts on pros/cons?

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[–] deadbeef79000 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This lowers the opportunity cost of having elections and gives a government more capability for implementing stuff and seeing a result within the same term.

It's a good thing IMHO. But no longer than four years.

[–] BalpeenHammer 1 points 1 week ago

I'd rather have laws have protections than four year terms. When the law is written there should be specified language saying it can't be repealed until after X is measured and found to be not compliant with expected outcomes.