Otago Daily Times

The right to have our say should be treasured

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HOW lucky we are to enjoy the freedom, the rights and the peace we have in New Zealand.

Reading the article about the Afghani Sadeghi sisters preparing to vote for the first time (ODT, 12.10.20) made me proud of our country.

How often we hear moaners on local and national issues who don’t even bother to vote. Every time I hear someone proclaimin­g that it is pointless to vote, I lose interest in their opinions very quickly.

Good on you, Mansoureh and Somayah. Enjoy exercising your vote and all the other freedoms denied you in your past.

A timely reminder to all of us who have forgotten that in our past are ancestors who fought hard for the rights we have.

They were not given lightly and we should not take them lightly either. Have your say — it is a precious thing.

Richard O’Mahony

North East Valley

WHY are politician­s of all the major and minor parties still campaignin­g so close to the general election?

Voter apathy is rampant! Voters can either vote then gloat, or resist then get drunk.

What the readers of the Otago Daily

Times choose to do is entirely their and noone else’s business, as voting is a secret.

Although it is far too late for campaignin­g, there is still ample time to decide what the makeup of our next government will be.

Will the Labour Party win, led by the most popular Prime Minister in New Zealand, the worldfamou­s and empathetic Jacinda Ardern, or must Jacinda coalesce with either the Green Party, with coleaders Shaw and Davison, or Dancing with the Stars finalist and Act Party leader David Seymour?

My prediction is that Labour will win by a proverbial country mile, having lapped whichever party comes in second.

Brian Collins

Lower Hutt ..................................

BIBLE READING: Your righteousn­ess is like the highest mountains. — Psalms 36:6.

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