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United Future New Zealand
By Bruce Clement
United Future is the successor party to a centralist party that was formed during the last parliament elected under the "first past the post" electoral system we inherited from the British during colonial days. It was widely assumed that with the MMP system National and Labour would move to the right and left respectively and several MPs who were on the right of Labour and left of National believed that there would be room for a broad based centralist party. At the next election the party failed to reach the 5% threshold for being in parliament, but Peter Dunne won an electorate seat so the party was in parliament on that basis. Dunne became the party leader and has survived ever since. Although it likes to present itself as centralist, Dunne has repeatedly merged his party with almost any group he thought could bring in a few extra votes, including Christian political movements and groups representing racial minorities. If United Future has any policies of its own left they are hard to discern. United Future has previously been either a coalition partner or had a supply and confidence agreement with both Labour and National and could do so again. This causes some tactical voters to see it as a a safe alternative to New Zealand First's as a centrist partner for the larger parties.
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You are free to copy this article under the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ license as long as you publish it unchanged and link either to Bruce's blog at http://kiore.blogspot.com/ or to his hub site at http://www.clement.co.nz/
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PLEASE VISIT THE CONTRIBUTOR'S WEBSITE
Bruce Clement
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