In basic terms New Zealand Government works
with voting to decide which political party goes into power.
The two major political parties of New Zealand are Labour and National,
and there are many other minor parties. The voting process happens every
three years but in different countries they do it once every four years and so on.
Every person older than 18 years age gets to vote when there is an election.
Each person votes for their choice of MP or Member of Parliment and which
ever Party gets the most votes goes into power.
New Zealand is a Democratic country because we vote to choose
which party goes into power unlike Saudi Arabia which is a Monarchy
because the people don’t vote who rules them. Some examples of
Monarchies in the present time are Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ruled by
King Salman Bin Abdulaziz. If the king died then his crown prince
Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) would become the King.
There are a total of 120 seats in the parliament.
To form a government you need 61 or more out
of those 120 because you need more than half
so you need a minimum of 61 seats in the
Parliment. Sometimes parties join together to reach that number and form a joint government.
Like in the 2017 election, Labour had 46
seats, NZ First had 9, Green party had 8,
so they joined and formed a government with 63 seats.
National party had got 56 seats but not got more than
half so they could not form a government.
