Ross Meurant

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Ross Meurant (born 1947), a New Zealand public figure, has at various times gained public attention as a police officer, a businessman, a politician, and a political lobbyist.

1 Police
2 Member of Parliament
- 2.1 Right of Centre / Conservatives
3 After leaving parliament
4 References

[edit] Police

Meurant was at various stages been Inspector in charge of the Auckland police criminal intelligence and the second-in-command of the infamous Red Squad during the 1981 Springbok rugby tour.

[edit] Member of Parliament

Meurant stood as the National Party candidate for Hobson in the 1987 elections. He was successful.

[edit] Right of Centre / Conservatives

Meurant, upon leaving National, established a new party known as Right of Centre. This party was based around Meurant's deeply conservative views.

[edit] After leaving parliament

After leaving Parliament, Meurant stood several times for various local political offices, including the mayoralty of Rodney and the Rodney seat on the Auckland Regional Council.

His bid at the Rodney seat was successful. However, his time with the Rodney District Council was short lived, when the entire council was effectively dissolved by the NZ Government on 10 April 2000 due to "Relationship Problems" between elected members [1]. These "Relationship Problems" were not reported to be physical or sexual in nature, moreover a case of a group of individuals not seeing eye-to-eye. Many former members of the council attributed these issues to Mr Meurant's attitude.

After the embarrassing District Council fiasco that made national headlines in New Zealand, his bid at the Rodney mayoralty failed amid huge local disapproval.

He has since moved to Eastern Europe and now feels he was manipulated by the "police subculture".^[1]