Te Ururoa Flavell

Well, again, it comes down to that sort of split vote and how much damage the whole saga with respect to the Māori Party has caused.

And I say in terms of what I've heard around the electorate is, yes, people have been turned off by the whole saga.

They're over it.

And so he's still very popular, put it that way.

But there's two other candidates that have been.

One that was at the last election and Tania Waikato now has come into the frame.

He's very well known across the social media platform.

So

You know, all of them are going to be a very tight race, and it's going to be interesting.

I reckon we should just hang off of it, see where the dice rolls a little bit more, next three or four months, and we'll see exactly where everything lands.