Two polls put Winston Peters in Kingmaker position close to election day
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Two new polls have Winston Peters' secured as kingmaker just days out from election day.
In both polls National and ACT cannot form a government alone, nor can a Labour-Green-Te Pāti Māori coalition.
In the Newshub-Reid Research poll, National fell 4.6 percent, while Labour was up one percent.
In the 1News Verian poll National fared better gaining 1 percent to sit at 37 percent well ahead of Labour on 28 percent.
In the Newshub poll New Zealand First is on 6.6 percent and in the One Varian poll the party is on 6 percent.
Massey University professor of politics Richard Shaw spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.