James Shaw will re-nominate as New Zealand Greens leader after his sensational axing by party members at the weekend's AGM.
Mr Shaw, also climate change minister in Jacinda Ardern's Labour-led government, failed to meet an 75 per cent satisfaction threshold among party delegates.
The unexpected vote sets the party up for an age-old Greens debate: can it be more successful in government, or as an opposition party agitating for change from the outside.