Withdraw from the UN, WHO and World Economic Forum
What it actually does
Would withdraw New Zealand from international organisations and agreements it judges to threaten sovereignty, naming the United Nations, the World Health Organization and the World Economic Forum, and instead negotiate bilateral agreements directly with individual countries.
Source: nzloyal.com · 2025-02
The Trump take
“Get out of the WHO? I did that. Twice! And one-on-one deals instead of the big globalist clubs. That's the art of the deal, folks. They read my book.”parody
Why it scored this way
Trade
Prefers country-by-country bilateral deals over multilateral bodies
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Big government
Pulls back from international bureaucracies
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Likes it
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