Today we have /u/Cenarchos, a rising force in MNZP politics, having been an active force in the former United Future party after coming from /r/CMHOC, who later joined Labour following the merge and VONCed /u/TheOWOTriangle as Deputy Leader for racism and anti-LGBT comments.

Hello Mr. Cenarchos. Would you mind being interviewed by the Model Times?

Sure.

So before joining Labour, you were a member of the party United Future, and before that you were a member of the Maori/Green Party. UF and Maori/Greens are very different, and why did you decide to join UF?

I'm centrist and United Future held a centrist position on a lot of issues. the Green party wasn't for me, so I decided that joining United future would be for the best.

When Labour shifted to the centre, I realised that UF and Labour should merge for the good of new Zealand, so the sensible voters would not split their vote.

If Triangle stayed in UF and did not merge, would you have used a VONC on him?

Yes.

Because I realised during the transition his opinions

I would have found out anyways and submitted a vonc

I believe it was AMN(/u/AnswerMeNow1) who pointed it out to me in private.

MNZP is going to have an election in 2 days. What issues do you hope the candidates will answer, yourself being a candidate?

Housing Crisis is a massive issue in New Zealand, as well as job creation and protection. I feel that ACT, or whatever they call themselves now, has not done a good enough job. I hope that by building on infrastructure we can have more affordable homes around Auckland. As well as finding new green energy jobs, while keeping old fossil fuel jobs so that people without higher education can remain employed and earn a good wage to support a family.

If you are elected as MP, would you support plans to completely replace petrol and diesel cars in 2030?

Yes, as electric cars are becoming more and more affordable. However I worry that Tesla will corner the market and become a monopoly, so we should be cautious about that. Though I would disapprove of a sweeping ban on diesel and petrol cars, instead we should slowly get rid of them by reducing the amount of petrol stations and replacing them with electric power stations.

We still have 12 years to go.

Which is relatively short.

So if the governments of Australia and NZ are to propose a plan to sponsor manufacturing of affordable electric cars to counter Tesla, would you support that?

No, not until Tesla is legally declared a monopoly. I hope that within 12 years people realise there are alternatives. I am sure the bigger car companies will also begin to produce electric cars. My only concern is that Tesla holds a lot of patents that will make it hard for other companies to produce cheap electric cars. For the record I do like Tesla cars. I am concerned that the company is also notoriously anti union.

You are often noted in CMHOC to have been an active advocate of Quebecois rights. What would you do to ensure the mana of all Māori iwis are protected?

Well I believe we should look at allowing Maori to own the seabeds, which I believe was discussed in the treaties(of Waitangi) but was never acted upon. I also believe in examining why so many Maori people are put into prison at a disproportionate number. I would guess it is to do with, unfortunately, a combination of racism and a lower socioeconomic background which forces young men to enter into crime as the societal foundations offer no alternative. Because of that we may need to examine why poverty is so extreme in the communities, and work to fix these issues so everyone had the same opportunity at life.

Thank you for your answers.

No problem.