New Zealand's prime minister-elect, Christopher Luxon, said that Nicola Willis was "locked in" to become the country's next finance minister, at a Tuesday news conference as talks continued with likely coalition partners. Luxon's centre-right National Party and preferred coalition partner ACT New Zealand won a razor-thin electoral victory on Saturday, together securing 61 seats in 121-seat parliament. Roughly 567,000 special votes, around 20% of the total, must still be counted, and Luxon has said his party was waiting for those votes to be counted while working on building relationships with both ACT and New ... (full story)