https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-...WEZS7TL64TKBA/
Omicron Parliament protest: National's Christopher Luxon claims PM 'missing in action'
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National leader Christopher Luxon says the Government needs to take responsibility for the escalating protests around the country and demonstrate it has a clear strategy to de-escalate.
More than 30 police officers have lined up outside the gate which allows access behind Parliament, in what is believed to be a response to a call from protesters to form a human chain in the area.
The back of Parliament is currently the only open-access way into the building for all of the staff inside.
"The growing occupation of central Wellington includes people showing a flagrant disregard for both the law and other New Zealanders. As the party of law and order, National strongly condemns this behaviour,'' the Opposition leader says.
"But this is a situation entirely of the Government's own making.