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Xenophobia in booming economy

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Abbas Goya April 2019 1. Terror in New Zealand The top three key issues of the 2017 parliamentary elections in New Zealand were immigration, housing, and climate change. Immigration had hit record levels of around 72,000 new arrivals annually. In response to anti-immigration tensions, the Labor Party claimed that immigrants raise housing prices and cause a shortage of necessary infrastructure, such as roads, schools, hospitals, etc. In this way, the Labor Party intended to win anti-immigrant votes in order to win the election. The Labor Party called for a 30,000-strong drop in immigration to New Zealand . How did the elections actually go? Of the 120 parliamentary seats, the conservative National Party won 56 and the Labor Party 46 seats. Perhaps the main winner was the New Zealand First (NZF) with 9 seats in the parliament. The party was founded in 1993 and has thus far made coalitions with both the National and the Labor Party and, it is the third largest New Zealand