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With election fever in the air, both major parties are meeting in the lead-up to the campaign.
In Auckland, National's regional conference is underway in the wake of the serious fraud office inquiry.
While in Wellington, Labour is putting the finishing touches to a campaign that might come sooner than anyone expects.
Mike Williams, president of the Labour Party, says their congress marks the beginning of Labour's election campaign.
ONE News understands there are two schools of thought among Labour's movers and shakers.
One group is for an early election, before the Alliance debacle starts hurting the party. The proposed date is July 27.
The other group wants to sit it out and go to the country in October.
Public expectations favour the later date.
A ONE News Colmar Brunton poll shows only 22% of New Zelanders expect an early poll.
Sixty-eight percent expect a spring offensive, October or November, and 10% do not know.
The National Party's Auckland division is meeting at the same time.
That includes MPs unhappy with president Michelle Boag's rejuvenation strategy.
And she is at odds with former president John Slater.
She has already questioned his role in the serious fraud office inquiry.
