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Quick Hit: National’s Desperate War on Winston Peters
Attacking your own kingmaker instead of fixing your own failures is the behaviour of a government that knows it is sliding. It risks blowing up the coalition and hands the left a free narrative.
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The filing states that Musk “can only be removed from our board or these positions by the vote of Class B holders” – super-voting shares with 10 votes apiece that he will control after the IPO, making his removal effectively a self-vote.