Parliamentary aspirant Lawrence Yule is unworried by a basement ranking on the National Party list which some may have seen as a campaign speed-wobble just 54 days out from the September 23 General Election.
Mr Yule, who's just ended a 22-year local bodies career which included 15 as mayor of Hastings and nine as president of nationwide local bodies lobby Local Government New Zealand, has been ranked No 67 on the list of 75 announced yesterday.
He is last of the party's electorate candidates apart from a yet-to-be named Clutha-Southland candidate replacing MP-in-exit Todd Barclay.
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But, it's not all that it seems, the party having ranked its current cabinet 1-21, followed by other MPs, down to new candidates in National-held seats, in alphabetical order.