Act party founder Roger Douglas now a 'swing voter'

Act party founder Roger Douglas now a 'swing voter'
Roger Douglas in 2008 with then-Act leader Rodney Hide. (Image: Getty)
Pattrick Smellie
The Act party has become a party that “represents only the wealthy”, says one of its founders, Roger Douglas.The one-time reforming finance minister Roger Douglas for the Labour government led by prime minister David Lange said in a 22-page “open letter to New Zealand voters” that he has yet to decide who to vote for at the Oct 14 general election.“While I have voted Act in the last nine elections, since 2002, I have not done so with much enthusiasm,” he wrote in the letter, released first to BusinessDesk. &l...

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