What happens next for Green Party
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Following the sudden death of co-leader Rod Donald, the Green Party must work out how to replace him in Parliament.
The procedure is as follows:
* A vacancy will be declared by the Speaker in a few days and must be filled "forthwith" according the Electoral Act.
* The next person on
the Greens list, former MP Nandor Tanczos, has the right to be the next Green MP.
* After him is former MP Mike Ward, then Catherine Delahunty and Russel Norman.
* The new MP is sworn in.
* The Greens could delay a co-leadership vote until it is next due constitutionally, at the annual meeting in June 2006.
