Jim Anderton

James Patrick Anderton, commonly known as Jim Anderton ( born January 21, 1938 in Auckland ) is a New Zealand politician. He was deputy prime minister under the Labour government of Helen Clark, founder of three parties and last party leader Jim Anderton 's Progressive of which was tailored exactly to him.

Life and work

Education, career and family

James Patrick Anderton was born on January 21, 1938 in Auckland. He attended the Seddon Memorial Technical College, and then the Auckland Teacher's College, where he completed his degree as a teacher. He worked for two years in his profession before he joined responsible for child protection services to the Education Department in Wanganui. Anderton is married and has four children, three sons and a daughter.

A first contact to political offices Anderton got when he was in Manukau City two years after entry into the Labour Party Councillor ( Councillor ). By early 1980, he worked in different areas.

Political career

His political career began in 1963 with the entry into the Labour Party, which he served until 1989. He worked his way up the party and was finally elected in 1979 as President of the Party. He held the position until 1984. Coinciding until his resignation from the party in 1989, he was a member of the Labour Party Policy Council, a Council that took care of the political course of the party.

1984 Anderton won for the first time for Labour with a direct mandate in Christchurch and held the mandate, as well as his seat in the House of Representatives about his exit from the party April 18, 1989 addition, first as Independent Party, later in different parties. He left his party from annoyance at the mark -liberal orientation of the policy of his party led by Prime Minister David Lange and Finance Minister Roger Douglas his,

On May 2, 1989 Anderton founded with other Labour renegades a new party called New Labour and became their party leaders. At the parliamentary elections in 1990 brought his party with 5.2% a seat Hoping to the parliamentary elections in 1993 to be able to achieve better results with an alliance, Anderton went with his New Labour Party formed an alliance with the then parties Democrats, Green Party and Mana Motuhake one. Anderton also was the leader of the Alliance Party, which took witted under the name AllianceBernstein. With a break from November 1994 to May 1995 Anderton was to break the connection in July 2002, political leader of the Alliance. The break came about when one of his colleagues Anderton and other accused for being too close to Labour.

In 2002 he founded with his followers, the New Zealand Progressive Party and practiced in coalitions, Anderton was on 27 July 2002 on a new party affiliation under the name Progressive Coalition a coalition with the Democratic Party NZ one. The new party affiliation, who entered into a coalition government with Labour held, for almost two years and was terminated by Anderton on 15 April 2004. He then went on to the coalition with Labour over his own party, which he called loudly party constitution only Progressive Party or in the short form progressive.

After the loss of government power for Labour in 2008 and Anderton, who had no desire went with the National Party to form a government involvement or support thinking, with its direct mandate in the opposition. The name Jim Anderton 's Progressive he gave his party before parliamentary elections in 2005 and cut so that the party unambiguously to his person.

Political offices in the country's politics

Anderton held on October 4, 2011 at the Parliament his farewell speech and advocated the election no longer on 26 November 2011.