What I learnt about the New Zealand parliament and elections this week...

This term our class has been learning about the New Zealand government and how it works. Today I will be blogging about What I have learnt in this topic...

I have learnt a lot about the NZ government here is a few things I learnt this week...

-New Zealand's government is based of the Westminister system.   

-New Zealand was the first country to allow women to vote.

-New Zealand allowed Maori members to be a part in the parliament in 1868.

- The woman in the NZ 10 dollar note is Kate Sheppard.

- Kate Sheppard is famous because she fought for the right to let women vote in elections.

- The queen is actually the sovereign of the country.

-The queen in NZ gets represented by the governor general who at the moment is Jerry Mateparae.

- The sovereign is not allowed to enter the parliament whilst a the House is seated.

-Citizens can vote if they're 18 or above...

-The sovereign gets to approve laws or acts before they are made official.

- People vote by getting the voting papers and putting their choose in the voting booths.

-There are 2 votes in the voting paper there is the party vote such as Green, National, Labour, etc and then their is the electorate vote the person you want to represent the local area such Peter Dunne the person in the local area who gets the most votes wins...  

- You can have special voting papers if you are sick, overseas and etc...

Bob is sad to see you go...

Those are all the facts about the NZ government I have time for... Thanks for reading blog readers... Hope you enjoyed this post and found it educational. Bye. See you in my next post.