New Zealand's National and Labour in dead heat days before election, poll shows

Nov 3 - New Zealand's ruling National party and centre-left opposition Labour are neck-and-neck in the final days before Saturday's general election, according to the latest opinion polling.• The final 1News Verian poll released on Tuesday put the conservative National Party at 30%, up one point, narrowly ahead of Labour, which gained two points to 29%• The Greens were up one point to 16%• ACT and NZ First, currently in a coalition with National, were both down two points to 10% and 8%, respectively• The centrist Opportunity party was unchanged at 6%• Te Pati Maori was up 0.3 points to 0.4%• The numbers mean either a right coalition with National, ACT and NZ First, or a left bloc with Labour, the Greens and Te Pati Maori, would need support from Opportunity to form a government• New Zealand uses a mixed-member proportional system, which tends to favour coalition governments REUTERS