Timeline: Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei's downfall

Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei has resigned in the wake of her admissions involving historical benefit disclosures and voting addresses.

She said she did not know who would replace her, but James Shaw would continue to lead the party.

She announced last month that she committed benefit fraud over a period of three years in the early 1990s because she and her young daughter depended on the Domestic Purposes benefit to survive.

She said last week she also committed vote fraud.

Here's how she got to this point:

• 16 July - Metiria Turei reveals she lied to stop her benefit being cut while struggling to raise her daughter on her own during the 1990s. While announcing her party's families' package, Mrs Turei said she had not told Work and Income how many flatmates were living with her.
• Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett, who also received a benefit as a solo parent, said Mrs Turei's admission was disappointing and she had never found herself in a position where she had to lie to Work and Income. Labour Party leader Andrew Little said Mrs Turei was brave and honest to admit to breaking the rules, but National MP Steven Joyce said people would be disappointed.
• 17 July - Mrs Turei acknowledges she could be charged with fraud and says, if asked, she would be willing to pay any money back.
• 25 July - Mrs Turei says she has been made aware of another woman in the same situation. She declines to reveal the other woman's identity.
• 26 July - Mrs Turei calls for an amnesty for beneficiaries who break the law so they are not threatened with more poverty if they reveal their circumstances.
• 26 July - Mrs Turei confirms the Ministry of Social Development is investigating her benefit history.
• The Green Party's potential coalition partners try to distance themselves from the controversy now surrounding Mrs Turei - Labour stresses the party is separate and has its own campaign, while New Zealand First would not be drawn on whether it could work in a government with Mrs Turei.
• 3 August - Mrs Turei is questioned about her benefit history at a meeting with investigators from the Ministry of Social Development.
• 3 August - Mrs Turei admits enrolling at an address where she was not living, in 1993, saying she did it to vote for a friend who was running as a candidate in that electorate.
• 4 August - Mrs Turei says she will not be resigning, but will not seek ministerial positions if Labour and the Greens win this year's election.
• 6 August - The co-leader insists Labour did not pressure her into giving up being a minister.
• 7 - 8 August - Two Green Party MPs, Kennedy Graham and David Clendon threaten to quit unless Mrs Turei steps down as co-leader. They are taken off the party list.
• 8 August - The Greens hold crisis talks to discuss the renegade MPs, who withdraw from the party caucus.
• 8 - 9 August - Mrs Turei takes aim at opponents outside the party, saying "they want to see us fail at the election".
• 9 August - Mrs Turei confirms to Checkpoint that she is resigning as Green Party co-leader.