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Grey Power has rejected a New Zealand First member's bid to stop it challenging the controversial electoral finance legislation in court.
The older persons' lobby group has joined the Sensible Sentencing Trust and Electoral Finance Act opponent John Boscawen in a High Court challenge made against the new law when it was in its "draconian" bill form.
New Zealand First supported the law change, which limits third party spending on election advertising.
At Grey Power's national meeting in Christchurch this week, the federation's involvement in the court action was tested by one of its own.
Jens Meder, a senior New Zealand First member and representative for the Auckland Grey Power Association, put forward a remit arguing it was wrong for the national federation to be a party to the court action.
His remit was "almost unanimously" rejected, said Grey Power federation secretary Bill Atkinson.
Mr Meder said the remit put forward by his Auckland association was an objection to Grey Power laying blame over the bill, and getting involved in the "quagmire of legal procedure".
It was much better to deal with issues through political process.
"Experience will show how [the law] works, and then if it doesn't work, we can still do away with it in the future."
Mr Atkinson said Grey Power viewed the Electoral Finance Bill "as a draconian bill to ban human rights".
