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style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Menéndez March in 2023</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <span style="display: inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Parliament" title="New Zealand Parliament">New Zealand Parliament</a></span><br />for <a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Green</a> <a href="/wiki/Party_list" class="mw-redirect" title="Party list">party list</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><div class="skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="width:100%; margin:0; color: black; background-color: lavender"><b><a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">Incumbent</a></b></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>Assumed office</b></span> <br />17 October 2020</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">1987 or 1988 (age 36–37)<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><a href="/wiki/Tijuana,_Baja_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Tijuana, Baja California">Tijuana, Baja California</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Green</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Ricardo Menéndez March</b> (born 1987 or 1988)<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a New Zealand activist and politician who, since 2020, is a <a href="/wiki/Member_of_parliament" title="Member of parliament">Member of Parliament</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand</a> in the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_House_of_Representatives" title="New Zealand House of Representatives">House of Representatives</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-40_new_MPs_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40_new_MPs-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ricardo_Men%C3%A9ndez_March&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Menéndez March moved to New Zealand from <a href="/wiki/Tijuana" title="Tijuana">Tijuana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baja_California" title="Baja California">Baja California</a>, Mexico, in 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He worked as a film projectionist for a decade in Auckland, but was made redundant due to film digitisation. After that role, he worked in hospitality, then in migrant advocacy.<sup id="cite_ref-agitator_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-agitator-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Menéndez March served as male co-convenor of <a href="/wiki/Young_Greens_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Young Greens of Aotearoa New Zealand">Young Greens of Aotearoa New Zealand</a> in 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the University of Auckland Public Policy Club Baby Back Benches debate in 2016, a group of <a href="/wiki/Young_New_Zealand_First" title="Young New Zealand First">Young New Zealand First</a> members started chanting "<a href="/wiki/Build_the_Wall" class="mw-redirect" title="Build the Wall">Build the Wall</a>" at Menéndez March, who is of Mexican descent. Young New Zealand First later apologised to him.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Menéndez March is the coordinator for Auckland Action Against Poverty,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a role he took up in late 2017. A writer for Stuff described him in 2020 as "a thorn in the side of the Labour-led Government in the past few years". In this role, he had frequently appeared on television, radio, and quoted in newspapers – once a week on average, by his estimate – stating that the government had been failing the poor, that benefits are too low and housing is too expensive.<sup id="cite_ref-agitator_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-agitator-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Menéndez March has been particularly critical of <a href="/wiki/KiwiBuild" title="KiwiBuild">KiwiBuild</a>, arguing that the scheme should be targeted towards <a href="/wiki/Working_poor" title="Working poor">working poor</a> and unemployed families and that the current set up will make homeownership rates fall further by encouraging increased property speculation and gentrification.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Menéndez March is gay.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ricardo_Men%C3%A9ndez_March&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="width: 470px; float: right; margin-left:1em; margin-right: 0; border: 4; cellpadding: 2; cellspacing: 0;"> <caption><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Parliament" title="New Zealand Parliament"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239334494">'"`UNIQ--templatestyles-00000016-QINU`"'</style><span class="tmp-color" style="color:var(--color-base,#202122)">New Zealand Parliament</span></a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" style="width: 125px;">Years </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 35px;">Term </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 125px;">Electorate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 35px;">List </th> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 150px;">Party </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2020_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2020 New Zealand general election">2020</a>–2023 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/53rd_New_Zealand_Parliament" title="53rd New Zealand Parliament">53rd</a> </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Party_lists_in_the_2020_New_Zealand_general_election" title="Party lists in the 2020 New Zealand general election">List</a> </td> <td>10 </td> <td style="background-color:#098137; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Green</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2023 New Zealand general election">2023</a>–present </td> <td><a href="/wiki/54th_New_Zealand_Parliament" title="54th New Zealand Parliament">54th</a> </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap;">List </td> <td>8 </td> <td style="background-color:#098137; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Green</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Menéndez March ran for the Green Party in the <a href="/wiki/2017_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2017 New Zealand general election">2017 New Zealand general election</a>. He ran in the <a href="/wiki/Mount_Roskill_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Mount Roskill (New Zealand electorate)">Mount Roskill</a> electorate and received 1,200 votes.<sup id="cite_ref-agitator_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-agitator-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was 21 on the party list, and was placed too far down to be allocated a seat.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_term,_2020–2023"><span id="First_term.2C_2020.E2.80.932023"></span>First term, 2020–2023</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ricardo_Men%C3%A9ndez_March&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: First term, 2020–2023"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For the <a href="/wiki/2020_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2020 New Zealand general election">2020 New Zealand general election</a>, Menéndez March was placed tenth on the Green party list, and ran for the <a href="/wiki/Maungakiekie_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Maungakiekie (New Zealand electorate)">Maungakiekie</a> electorate.<sup id="cite_ref-list-spinoff_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-list-spinoff-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the election campaign, he criticised his party co-leader <a href="/wiki/James_Shaw_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="James Shaw (New Zealand politician)">James Shaw</a> for supporting $11.7m of funding for a private green school.<sup id="cite_ref-GreenSchool_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GreenSchool-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Menéndez March did not win the Maungakiekie electorate, coming third place behind the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> MP <a href="/wiki/Denise_Lee" title="Denise Lee">Denise Lee</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> MP <a href="/wiki/Priyanca_Radhakrishnan" title="Priyanca Radhakrishnan">Priyanca Radhakrishnan</a>, with 2,666 votes.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the Greens received 7.9% of the party vote (226,754),<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and his list placement was high enough for him to enter Parliament as a list MP.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Menéndez March was one of three new Green MPs in the <a href="/wiki/53rd_New_Zealand_Parliament" title="53rd New Zealand Parliament">53rd Parliament</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-40_new_MPs_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40_new_MPs-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2020, Menéndez March travelled to Mexico during the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a> to care for his family. His step-mother had aggressive cancer and had been given months to live, and his father had had major surgery with long-lasting effects. The person who had cared for the couple had become extremely ill herself and was unable to care for them.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was criticised by opposition leader <a href="/wiki/Judith_Collins" title="Judith Collins">Judith Collins</a> for doing so.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In late February, Menéndez March drew media attention after National MP <a href="/wiki/Chris_Bishop_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chris Bishop (politician)">Chris Bishop</a> disclosed that Menéndez March had made two attempts to gain a place in "managed isolation and quarantine" for "national interest" reasons.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2023, the Greens confirmed that Menéndez March would be contesting former <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_New_Zealand" title="Prime Minister of New Zealand">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Jacinda_Ardern" title="Jacinda Ardern">Jacinda Ardern</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Mount_Albert_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Mount Albert (New Zealand electorate)">Mount Albert electorate</a> during the <a href="/wiki/2023_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2023 New Zealand general election">2023 New Zealand general election</a> as part of a "two ticks" campaign.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Second_term,_2023–present"><span id="Second_term.2C_2023.E2.80.93present"></span>Second term, 2023–present</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ricardo_Men%C3%A9ndez_March&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Second term, 2023–present"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the 2023 election held on 14 October, Menéndez March came third place in Mount Albert behind Labour MP <a href="/wiki/Helen_White_(politician)" title="Helen White (politician)">Helen White</a> and National MP <a href="/wiki/Melissa_Lee" title="Melissa Lee">Melissa Lee</a>, with 9,296 votes.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite failing to take Mount Albert, Menéndez March was re-elected to Parliament on the Green party list.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In late November 2023, Menéndez March assumed the Green Party's social development and employment, workforce planning and development, immigration, and associate health (primary health) portfolios. He also became the <a href="/wiki/Whip_(politics)" title="Whip (politics)">Musterer</a> for the Green Party.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 30 July 2024, <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Trade_(New_Zealand)" title="Minister of Trade (New Zealand)">Trade Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Todd_McClay" title="Todd McClay">Todd McClay</a> was recorded as saying "you're not in Mexico now, we don't do things like that here" to Menéndez March during a parliamentary sitting. Menéndez March subsequently raised the matter with <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_New_Zealand_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives">Speaker</a> <a href="/wiki/Gerry_Brownlee" title="Gerry Brownlee">Gerry Brownlee</a>, who ordered McClay to withdraw and apologise. Following the incident, Menéndez March described McClay's remarks as "pretty racist and unacceptable".<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Views_and_positions">Views and positions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ricardo_Men%C3%A9ndez_March&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Views and positions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political_views">Political views</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ricardo_Men%C3%A9ndez_March&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Political views"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Menéndez identifies as a "proud socialist" and a "true <a href="/wiki/Marxist" class="mw-redirect" title="Marxist">Marxist</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He said that the <a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Green Party</a> would work hard to offer support to <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> to enact "genuine bold socialist policy".<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anti-monarchism">Anti-monarchism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ricardo_Men%C3%A9ndez_March&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Anti-monarchism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Before sitting in Parliament, Menéndez March expressed reluctance to swearing the required <a href="/wiki/Oath_of_Allegiance_(New_Zealand)" title="Oath of Allegiance (New Zealand)">Oath of Allegiance</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Monarch_of_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Monarch of New Zealand">Queen of New Zealand</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Elizabeth II</a>. He posted a meme about it, which received criticism from monarchists. He did however take the oath.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Israel-Palestine">Israel-Palestine</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ricardo_Men%C3%A9ndez_March&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Israel-Palestine"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In May 2021, Menéndez March drew media attention after he posted pictures on himself on <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a> and <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a> with the caption. "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!" in response to the <a href="/wiki/2021_Israel-Palestine_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2021 Israel-Palestine crisis">2021 Israel-Palestine crisis</a>. The New Zealand Jewish Council criticised Menéndez March's post, claiming that the slogan was used by Hamas to promote <a href="/wiki/Antisemitism" title="Antisemitism">antisemitism</a> and the ethnic cleansing of Jews.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the use of the slogan was defended by Alternative Jewish Voice, arguing that freedom is not "a zero-sum business".<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Menéndez March's posts led the <a href="/wiki/Libertarianism" title="Libertarianism">libertarian</a> <a href="/wiki/ACT_New_Zealand" title="ACT New Zealand">ACT Party</a>'s Deputy Leader <a href="/wiki/Brooke_Van_Velden" class="mw-redirect" title="Brooke Van Velden">Brooke Van Velden</a> to oppose the Green Party's motion calling for Members of Parliament to recognise the right of Palestinians to <a href="/wiki/Self-determination" title="Self-determination">self-determination</a> and statehood. In response to Van Velden's criticism, Green MP <a href="/wiki/Golriz_Ghahraman" title="Golriz Ghahraman">Golriz Ghahraman</a> asserted that Menéndez March was defending the rights of both Arabs and Jews to having equal rights in their homeland.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/2023_Israel-Hamas_war" class="mw-redirect" title="2023 Israel-Hamas war">2023 Israel-Hamas war</a>, Menéndez March attended a Palestinian solidarity rally where he joined fellow Green MPs <a href="/wiki/Chl%C3%B6e_Swarbrick" title="Chlöe Swarbrick">Chlöe Swarbrick</a>, <a href="/wiki/Steve_Abel" title="Steve Abel">Steve Abel</a> and <a href="/wiki/Darleen_Tana" title="Darleen Tana">Darleen Tana</a> in chanting "<a href="/wiki/From_the_river_to_the_sea" title="From the river to the sea">From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ricardo_Men%C3%A9ndez_March&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output 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Graham">Kennedy Graham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Hague" title="Kevin Hague">Kevin Hague</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gareth_Hughes_(politician)" title="Gareth Hughes (politician)">Gareth Hughes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sue_Kedgley" title="Sue Kedgley">Sue Kedgley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Kerekere" title="Elizabeth Kerekere">Elizabeth Kerekere</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keith_Locke" title="Keith Locke">Keith Locke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jan_Logie" title="Jan Logie">Jan Logie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mojo_Mathers" title="Mojo Mathers">Mojo Mathers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russel_Norman" title="Russel Norman">Russel Norman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denise_Roche" title="Denise Roche">Denise Roche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eugenie_Sage" title="Eugenie Sage">Eugenie Sage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Shaw_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="James Shaw (New Zealand politician)">James Shaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darleen_Tana" title="Darleen 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(male)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand_female_co-leadership_election" title="2009 Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand female co-leadership election">2009 (female)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand_male_co-leadership_election" title="2015 Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand male co-leadership election">2015 (male)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand_female_co-leadership_election" title="2018 Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand female co-leadership election">2018 (female)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand_male_co-leadership_election" title="2021 Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand male co-leadership election">2021 (male)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand_co-leadership_election" title="2022 Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand co-leadership election">2022</a></li> <li><a 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