With 10 minutes before Mallard's 5pm deadline National Leader Simon Bridges said in a statement National had no plans to take their videos down.
"Freedom of speech is of fundamental importance to our Parliamentary democracy and to New Zealanders.
"Yesterday's Speaker's ruling has regrettably put the National Party in the worst of all positions.
"The Speaker has neither referred the matter to the Privileges Committee for a definitive public hearing, nor ruled in our favour as we believe he should."
The Herald understands that National plan to post many more videos featuring rival MPs over the weekend in further defiance of Mallard's ruling.
In the moments after Bridges' statement, a number of National MPs – including the National Party's main Facebook page – re-posted videos Mallard moved to ban.
Mallard yesterday ordered all political parties to take down any videos they had made which feature MPs in the House who had not given their consent.
He gave parties, specifically National, a 5pm today deadline.
"While there has been some discussion about what constitutes a 'political advertisement', it is clear to me that videos that support one party or to aim to reduce support for another party are the sorts of items covered by [Parliament's rules]," he told MPs in the House.
His ruling followed a National video which featured Labour MP Deborah Russell that showed her making a speech about wellbeing, but trailing off-topic and on to Greek philosophy.
Before the video, text read: "Still not sure what Labour's Wellbeing Budget means?"
National have ran other such videos in the past – as have Labour.
However, Mallard's ruling only applied to videos which used Parliamentary footage within the last year.
Bridges yesterday called Mallard's move an "attempt at stopping the Opposition from highlighting what goes on in Parliament is a chilling move designed to stop freedom of expression".
In today's statement, Bridges said Mallard had attempted to stop National from holding the Government to account by drawing attention to Parliamentary proceedings.
"He has pushed the matter to a process which effectively gags us for a significant period of time."
Bridges said after National pointed out that this would also include hundreds of videos from Labour, The Greens and NZ First when they were in Opposition, Mallard made an amended ruling that this only applies to videos posted this year, therefore this only really affects National.
"We have the highest respect for the role of the Speaker and his Office. But in the interests of freedom of expression and against censorship, we will keep the videos up to decisively bring this to a head."
Mallard has been approached for comment.
