Members of the Rotorua District Residents and Ratepayers group will launch their campaigns for the Rotorua mayoralty and district council at a set of public meetings.
The group's endorsed mayoral candidate Dr Reynold Macpherson said the group would be doing things differently from other candidates and would not be holding a one-off campaign launch, instead running a "grassroots consultation" campaign at meetings across the district.
"The public is invited to meet and share their concerns with a new council team of endorsed candidates. Instead of repeating a vague vision, and promising even more frenetic implementation, our seven candidates will introduce themselves and then listen," Dr Macpherson said.
Along with Dr Macpherson, the group's six other council candidates - Peter Bentley, Julie Calnan, John Dyer, Raj Kumar, Rosemary MacKenzie and John Visser - will also attend most of the meetings.
Dr Macpherson said the group had challenged the Rotorua Lakes Council's decision-making processes and promised to "restore democracy, the rule of law, financial responsibility and policy-making power to elected representatives".