Every yr New Zealanders solid their votes in one in every of their nation’s most hotly contested competitions: the chook of the yr pageant.
This yr, nonetheless, the competitors has been suffering from allegations of world interference and outsider lobbying in what some have likened to high-level election tampering. The furore led to a delay in saying a outcome as a few of the vote counters cry foul.
On Wednesday morning, native time, the winner was revealed — an obscure water-bird, identified to New Zealand’s native Maori individuals because the puteketeke. The clumsy creature, which makes a barking sound and presents weeds to potential mates, additionally goes by the title of the Australasian Crested Grebe.
John Oliver has admitted that his marketing campaign is “alarmingly aggressive” with billboards selling his trigger
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The purpose for the delay was a marketing campaign of interference attributable to the
