Panmure-Ōtāhuhu electorate
Panmure-Ōtāhuhu runs from Point Engliand and Tāmaki in the north to Ōtara and Papatoetoe in the south, and includes Panmure, Westfield and Ōtāhuhu. The seat is currently held by Labour's Jenny Salesa, who won safely with a margin of 18,626. In 2020, Labour won the greatest share of party votes in Panmure-Ōtāhuhu – 73% to National's 13%. The electorate was created in the 2019/2020 electorate redistribution, from an area previously covered by Manukau East electorate, which was a safe Labour seat since its creation in 1996.
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James Robb
Why I'm standing
I want to speak for the working class – both sexes, all races, nationalities, languages and faiths, all generations, local-born and immigrant. We need to rebuild our organisations, especially the unions, and we need our own political voice that will speak for our common causes, and build our unity and strength. We need a party that puts the interests of the wage-workers first, not those of the bankers, landlords, property speculators, and supermarket monopolies.
About me
I have many years of experience as an industrial worker – in meat works, car assembly, food industries and others. That includes experience of hard-fought strikes, and unions controlled by their members – things we haven't seen for a very long time. The key to fighting our way out of the deepening crisis is to recognise that all workers have much in common. We have nothing in common with the wealthy exploiters and their parties.
My priorities
- Fight for automatic cost-of-living wage increases, equal to inflation, every year for all workers.
- Build thousands of state houses, with rents capped at 10% of tenants' income. Take over empty houses.
- Defend rights of freedom of speech and assembly. No to censorship, no to laws against 'hate speech'.
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