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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1531/
- Published: 2026-07-14T18:30:26.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-14T18:30:26.000Z
- Description: Speaking from a rooftop bar in central Auckland where his candidacy for the November 7 election was revealed on Tuesday, Henry responded to the ‘why ACT’ question.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> ACT’s newest candidate for the general election, Paul Henry, says he’s “enormously disappointed with National”, and the prime minister’s performance especially.  
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> Speaking from a rooftop bar in central Auckland where his candidacy for the November 7 election was revealed on Tuesday, Henry responded to the ‘why ACT’ question.  
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> “The nature of being a centrist party, centre-right centrist party, is you have to be a little bit populist,” he said, explaining why he had fallen out of love with National, and in answering a question about what he’d made of Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s performance.  
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> “What happens if you run a party that wants everyone to vote for them, is you end up doing nothing,” Henry said.  
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> “This is probably why the single reason why ACT is so important, because someone needs to hold National to account.”  
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