After dominating the political news cycle last week, Te Pāti Māori is again the big headline player in the latest Newshub-Reid political poll released on Sunday.
On current polling Te Pāti Māori would secure five seats in the next government and would play king maker. Labour had 35.9 percent support, down 2.1 and good enough for 46 seats. National were down 1.3 points to 35.3 percent, just below Labour on 45 seats.
ACT and the Greens were holding fairly steady, at 10.8 percent and 8.1 percent respectively. Te Pāti Māori has a few demands for any coalition partner - abolish the monarchy, exit the Five Eyes intelligence pact, remove GST from food and put in place a wealth tax.
National's already ruled out working with them, but Labour's still got the door open.
RNZ political editor Jane Patterson spoke with Corin Dann.
