Radio NZ reports:
New Zealand’s youngest ever mayor is being called on to resign by the majority of his council. …
The majority of councillors had lost confidence in the mayor and lost trust in him acting in the best interests of the community and council as a whole, Hovell said.
The Mayor is accountable to the public, not the Council. If those seven Councillors can’t accept the results of the election, then they should resign themselves.
Failing that, the Local Government Minister should sack the entire Council (he can’t sack just some of them) and appoint Bell as the Commissioner.
It is apparent that change is needed, based on this Newsroom investigation which found the following:
It now seems clear that the Chief Executive is trying to get the Mayor sacked. This sort of behaviour should not be rewarded.
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