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New Zealand facing weeks of uncertainty with election ‘too close to call’

National party will be largest in parliament but ultimate shape of next government won’t be settled for some time New Zealand could be facing a weeks-long wait to know the shape of its next government, after its nail-biting election failed to hand a decisive victory to either the incumbent rightwing coalition or opposition left bloc. On preliminary results, the centre-right National party, led by prime minister Christopher Luxon, managed to secure enough seats to govern alongside his two traditional coalition partn.

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