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Jim Anderton's Progressive Party
By Bruce Clement
Although it now goes by the name Progressive Party the party was originally formed as a vehicle for Jim Anderton after the break-up of the old Alliance Party, and many people still refer to it by the original name. Jim Anderton was originally a Labour Party stalwart and was party president before entering parliament on the Labour ticket. During the Lange government Anderton was one of the members of a faction in the party that believed the traditional values of the party should prevail over the "new right" policies of Sir Roger Douglas and Richard Prebble. Eventually he felt he could not continue supporting the Lange ministry and left to form New Labour. New Labour was one of the minor parties that formed the Alliance coalition and eventually fully merged into the Alliance party. With the break-up of Alliance, Anderton was left in a position slightly to the left of a Labour party that had returned to traditional values and very happy to work with them. As a party the progressives poll very low, but as Anderton is well supported in his Wigram electorate in Christchurch he is almost certainly going to be returned to parliament in the 2008 election. Politically the Progressives are old-values Labour and support New Zealand ownership of infrastructure such as banks, airports and railroads. Where there is no New Zealand owned option in these fields they are proponents of starting a government owned option. The progressives are almost certain to offer a coalition with Labour and not with National.
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