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New Zealand gets new government promising tax cuts, less red tape

New Zealand Prime Minister-elect Christopher Luxon has formed a coalition government with New Zealand First leader Winston Peters and ACT leader David Seymour [File: Mark Mitchell/NZ Herald via AP Photo]

New Zealand’s National Party has agreed to form a coalition government with two other right-leaning parties, heralding a shift towards lower taxes and less government bureaucracy.

The centre-right National Party on Friday signed an agreement to govern in a coalition with the classically liberal ACT and populist New Zealand First parties nearly six weeks after the country held its general elections.

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