Jim Anderton's Progressive Party

Jim Anderton 's Progressive is a left- settled in the political spectrum of New Zealand Party. She was a New Zealand Progressive Party of Jim Anderton, a former Labour politician and Deputy Prime Minister under the government of Helen Clark founded in 2002, and renamed after its founder in 2005. The party is in a relationship over Anderton with the Labour Party.

History

The Jim Anderton 's Progressive is, as the name suggests, closely connected with the person Jim Anderton. Anderton was in the Labour Party, for which he sat in the House of Representatives since 1984 until 1989. He left, upset about the free market policies of the Labour government under David Lange and Finance Minister Roger Douglas 's, 1989, the party and founded first New Labour. In 1996, he brought New Labour in the Alliance was founded in 1991 with one who in that year won 13 parliamentary seats in the election. He held until 2002, the year the division of Alliance, the party chairmanship. The split was because of differences over the proximity to Labour, which specifically Anderton was to be too closely associated with Labour in the criticism.

Jim Anderton therefore left with some supporters of the Alliance and in 2002 founded with his followers, the New Zealand Progressive Party. At the parliamentary elections on July 27, 2002 Anderton entered into a coalition with the NZ Democratic Party. They approached as Progressive Coalition on the elections and reached 1.7%, a direct mandate and a mandate list. The party affiliation, which entered into a coalition government with Labour, held until 15 April 2004. Thereafter Anderton led coalition with Labour over his own party, which then called loudly party constitution only Progressive Party or in the short form progressive. The coalition with Labour was over the 2005 election down to loss of government power for Labour in 2008. Anderton did not feel like the National Party to form a government involvement or support thinking and went with his direct mandate as Labour into opposition. The name Jim Anderton 's Progressive he gave his party before the general election in 2005.

Anderton held on October 4, 2011 at the Parliament his farewell speech and advocated the election no longer on 26 November 2011. His party did not start for the national election. The future of the party is centered on Anderton meanwhile still open.

Parliamentary elections

Sources: Election New Zealand