Christopher Luxon said he would run a caretaker government until the final votes were tallied on Nov 27. (AFP pic)WELLINGTON: New Zealand prime minister Christopher Luxon said Sunday his right-wing coalition had a path back to office, while conceding the vote remained "too close to call" after a hard-fought campaign dominated by cost of living issues.
Neither Luxon's National Party nor the centre-left Labour won enough seats in parliament to form a government without minor parties in an election that put the two main parties neck and neck at 29% – just a few thousand votes separating them.
Preliminary results had National winning the most seats, which would give them a very slim majority if combined with their coalition partners – the populist NZ First and the libertarian ACT.
