Coalition of chaos

In New Zealand politics, the phrase "coalition of chaos" was widely used during the 2023 New Zealand general election campaign. The phrase was a pejorative term used by the leaders of both major political parties - Chris Hipkins of the New Zealand Labour Party and Christopher Luxon the New Zealand National Party - to describe the prospective political coalitions that their respective leaders might have formed after the election. The term was chiefly used by Luxon to describe a potential left-wing coalition between Labour and the major progressive third parties, Te Pāti Māori and the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, and also to describe the resulting right-wing government Luxon formed with the ACT and New Zealand First parties upon National emerging as the largest party in the election.

The term "coalition of chaos" and others related to it, such as the "three-headed taniwha" have since been used by the opposition and some media commentators to describe the triumvirate-like power-sharing agreement that Luxon signed with Winston Peters and David Seymour, leaders of New Zealand First and ACT respectively.