ELECTION COVERAGE - Fleur Fitzsimons - Rongotai
Fleur Fitzsimons is the picture-perfect Labour Party candidate—black blazer, red scarf, and all—with The Spinoff crediting her look to a Labour MP ‘laboratory’. Fitzsimons has been a Wellingtonian for 26 years, ever since she first moved to study Politics and Law at VUW. She joined the VUWSA executive, alongside the current Prime Minister, then VUWSA President, Chris Hipkins.
Fitzsimons succeeded Hipkins' presidency in 2002. “I was Vice President when [he] was student President here,” she admits, “and we did call him Chippy.”
She stepped up to the Rongotai seat after the departure of current MP Paul Eagle, as she wants “to live in a New Zealand that has taken action on climate change and looks after the most vulnerable.”
After study, and for most of her working life, Fitzsimons worked as a trade union official before becoming a Wellington City councillor in 2017. Her roots in advocacy for both workers and students is something she promises to remember in her candidacy.
Fitzsimons joined us in the Salient office to discuss her most important campaign issues: climate justice, housing, advocacy, and cost of living.
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