Amplifying Richard Winger’s post of two days ago, the Prime Minister-elect of New Zealand, Christopher Luxon, wants to form a coalition government with ACT New Zealand, which is a libertarian party. Final vote counts aren’t in yet, but, as of now, the two parties won 61 of 121 seats in the New Zealand parliament.

New Zealand’s adoption of proportional representation has made ACT New Zealand a political power in that nation.

Here is a story on this development.

Here is the Wikipedia article on ACT New Zealand.

Arizona Capitol Times has this story about the Green Party’s petition to regain party status. It is lengthy and has interesting details that other news stories don’t have. For instance, it quotes Green Party leaders as saying that if their petition succeeds, the party will then do a registration drive in order to stay on the ballot, much as the Libertarians have done in Arizona for twenty years.

Here is the story from the New York Times. It may be behind a paywall.