Sunday Club explains
Sunday Club candidates are unlikely to contest seats at the next General Election if the National Party “improves its performance.” The group’s chairman, Mr Bert Walker, said last evening that the idea of fielding candidates was floated because of a fear that National’s ineffectiveness in Opposition was turning New Zealand into a one-party State. , • -- ■. .
“If the National Party improves its performance it will not be necessary to nominate;or run alternative Candidates,’’ he said. ,
Sunday Club members who stand against official National candidates will have to forfeit' their membership of the National Party. Mr Walker agreed with a suggestion made by Sir Robert Muldoon that it might be more appropriate for the Sunday Club to challenge the party’s candidates at the selection stage.
It is thought that most of the Sunday Club’s supporters have retained their membership of the National Party.
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Press, 18 December 1985, Page 3
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