Labour breaks its own election rules

National Party Deputy Leader Bill English says Labour has blatantly broken its own rules on providing home addresses on election advertising after describing National's concerns about the issue as 'paranoid'.

Mr English says National has obtained a Labour CD being distributed in Wellington this week. As campaign material, it features an authorisation, but it breaks Labour's new laws because no home address is given.

"When National raised the issue about home addresses in early February, Labour said National was 'paranoid' and gave every indication it planned to comply with the law.

"Labour has not done as it promised.

"The Electoral Commission confirmed what the authorisation law is, and have actively enforced it when it comes to an anti-Labour website. The commission will clearly have to enforce this breach as well

"This is at least the third time Labour has found itself in the gun over election-year activities since January.

"Labour's been caught out hosting the anti-National Party website 'The Standard', and Mike Williams initially refused to tell the whole truth about Labour's interest free loans.

"Labour either doesn't care about complying with the law, or doesn't understand the anti-democratic rules they put in place." 


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