Eyewitness
Eyewitness
RNZ
Crisis- who runs the country?
12 minutes Posted Jun 7, 2017 at 3:30 am.
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June 1984 and a drunken decision late one night leads to a snap election. Sir Robert Muldoon's ruling National Government is thrown out of office and David Lange's reforming Labour Party voted in. But before they could take power, an unprecedented constitutional crisis gripped the country and for three days, no one knew who was in charge.