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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-164/
- Published: 2020-07-08T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-07-08T10:34:50.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:00

> National MP Hamish Walker has announced that he will not be standing for re-election for the Southland electorate at the upcoming 2020 election.

> The backbencher MP had been behind the leak of Covid-19 patient details to media.

> “I wish to thank the people of Clutha-Southland who I have loved meeting, assisting and representing over the past two and a half years.

> “I sincerely apologise for my actions,” he said in a statement.

> He said he would be making no further comment.  
>  
> [rnz.co.nz/news/political/420754/covid-19-privacy-leak-mp-hamish-walker-announces-he-won-t-stand-for-re-election](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/420754/covid-19-privacy-leak-mp-hamish-walker-announces-he-won-t-stand-for-re-election?ref=goodoil.news)