New Zealanders to Vote on the Design of a New Flag

      Citizens of New Zealand will certainly have two interesting referendums soon. The subjects will be about their views upon the  design of a new flag. They will have four ideas initially to choose from. 

         The four designs were the “winners” among some 10,000 submitted for consideration. And they all are remarkably similar. All have a silver fern included within the format. It seems that the “fern” is an “element of indigenous flora representing the growth of the nation” according to a recent article  in the National Post.  The multiple points of the fern also apparently represent the New Zealand natives “peaceful multicultural society”.

         Once the favourite of those four is determined later this year, then in March that one, along with the current flag will be given as a final choice, via a second referendum. That determination will then be deemed  the official national flag of the country.

         Rather democratic isn’t it, to let the citizens have a say in what their national flag should look like.