Darude34:
Journeyman:
Darude34:
It will backfire as this new green party will just pull votes from the already national supporters.
Seems to have worked ok for the Green Party and Labour, no?
I don't recall any other parties creating or cohooting a new party to win votes from the opposition. So no, it did not work for them, and was never tried.
This new party would need to get more than 5% of votes for it to work with the MMP threshold. Thats a big ask considering that the current green party got 6.3% in 2017.
Do you have any evidence that a bluegreen party is being created or "cohooted" (whatever that means) by a larger party? Or is this just something you've imagined?