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2/10/2023

As we move into the last two weeks of the 2023 election, can someone facilitating the leader’s debates ask each leader whether they reject and repudiate political violence and whether they communicate to their supporters that violence is never, never, never okay?

Political violence undermines our democracy.

This is the real challenge to our so-called democracy, not Te Tiriti.

It must never be normalised.

Any political party or politician that enables and endorses political violence in pursuing power has no place governing in Aotearoa.

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