27-603: Progressive Coalition may refer to the following political parties: Jim Anderton's Progressive Party , in New Zealand, formerly Progressive Coalition and Jim Anderton's Progressive Coalition Vermont Progressive Party , in the United States, formerly the Progressive Coalition See also [ edit ] Progressive Party (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
54-590: A Supreme Court decision handed down in November 2004. A proposed bill to replace the act in 2005 failed. The Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Act 2018 received Royal Assent on 3 October 2018 and entered into force in New Zealand the next day. The provisions on waka-jumping now appear as section 55A of the Electoral Act 1993 . Under those provisions, members of Parliament who choose to leave their party or are expelled from their party are also expelled from Parliament if
81-408: A number of political parties in New Zealand , including the creation of New Zealand First and ACT . The new political climate tended to favour the establishment of new political parties since in former times, dissidents had often simply become independent MPs. In the two previous parliaments before the 2001 act had been passed, 22 MPs defected. The frequency of waka-jumping made New Zealand enact
108-463: A result of the great instability caused by rampant party-switching in the previous Parliament. As such, Anderton and his supporters remained technically a part of the Alliance's parliamentary wing until the election, when they officially established their new party. The Democrats , a component of the Alliance, broke away to join the new group which was to be the "Progressive Coalition", but shortly before
135-548: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Jim Anderton%27s Progressive Party Jim Anderton's Progressive Party (formed on 27 July 2002 as the Progressive Party and renamed after its founder in 2005) was a New Zealand political party to the political left of its ally, the Labour Party . The party was established when Jim Anderton and his supporters left
162-454: The 2002 election , the official name was changed to "Jim Anderton's Progressive Coalition", a measure Anderton says was intended to ensure that the new party was recognised. Later, after the Democrats had departed to re-establish themselves as an independent entity, the name "Progressive Party" was adopted. The new party placed Anderton's supporters from the Alliance first on its party list. In
189-513: The Alliance party. The Progressive Party held at least one seat in Parliament from 2002 to 2011 because of Anderton's victories in the electorate of Wigram . The party did not contest the 2011 general election , and was de-registered at its own request on 9 March 2012 . Economically, the party was left of centre, and placed particular attention on economic development. It had a particular focus on
216-474: The Alliance split in 2002 over how to respond to the invasion of Afghanistan , Jim Anderton nominally remained the leader of the Alliance inside Parliament while he campaigned outside Parliament as the leader of the newly-founded Progressive Party . The resulting uncertainty around the Alliance’s position contributed to Prime Minister Helen Clark 's decision to call an early general election in 2002 . While
243-509: The New Zealand Parliament ) or when a list MP's party membership ceases. In 2001, legislation was enacted that required MPs to leave Parliament if they left their party; this law expired after the 2005 election. In 2018 a similar law was passed which requires a defecting MP to give up their seat on the request of their former party leader. Electorate MPs may re-contest their seat in a by-election , whereas list MPs are replaced by
270-499: The 2011 general election. The party did not contest the election and is now no longer in Parliament. On 9 March 2012 the party was de-registered at its own request. Waka-jumping In New Zealand politics , waka-jumping is a colloquial term for when a member of Parliament (MP) either switches political party between elections (taking their parliamentary seat with them and potentially upsetting electoral proportionality in
297-586: The Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Act 2001, which had been introduced by Labour Party associate justice minister Margaret Wilson in 1999 but had been promoted by Labour's coalition partner Alliance ahead of that year's general election. The act expired at the 2005 election, when the sunset clause came into effect. It required MPs who had entered Parliament via a party list to resign from Parliament if they left that party's parliamentary caucus . However, parties were still able to find ways around this law. When
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#1732851265287324-575: The Green Party under the terms of its own confidence-and-supply agreement with Labour. A member's bill in the name of National Party MP David Carter with the intent of repealing the Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Act 2018 was introduced into Parliament in July 2020. The Green Party defied other government parties to support the repeal bill, with the first reading in Parliament passing by 64 to 55 votes. Carter's Electoral (Integrity Repeal) Amendment Bill
351-552: The Progressives' vote tailed off slightly to 1.2 percent, but this decline was enough to keep Robson from returning to Parliament even though Anderton easily won his seat. The indication of the New Zealand First and United Future parties that they would support either National or Labour based on whichever received the most votes may have eroded the Progressives' potential share of the vote alongside other minor parties. As Labour
378-476: The creation of jobs, and said it was committed to achieving full employment . Among its other policy objectives were free education and free healthcare, four weeks of annual leave from work, an "anti-drugs" policy, and cutting the corporate tax rate to 30%. It also advocated an abolition of the Goods and Services Tax in favour of a broad-based financial transactions tax , and monetary policy reform. Its campaign slogan
405-517: The elections, it competed against both the Alliance (then led by Laila Harré , a supporter of McCarten) and Labour. It managed to gain 1.7% of the vote, and Jim Anderton was successful in retaining his electorate seat in Wigram . As such, the party gained entry to parliament with two seats, including deputy leader Matt Robson , who had been a member of Anderton's faction of the Alliance. The Alliance itself failed to win any seats. It received only 1.27% of
432-485: The law was in force, it was used once to expel a list MP from Parliament (an electorate MP who changed parties could still fight a by-election, as Tariana Turia did ). In December 2003, the ACT Party caucus voted to expel Donna Awatere Huata , an ACT list MP who became an independent after she had been charged with fraud. The expulsion became the subject of litigation, and Awatere Huata was not expelled from Parliament until
459-585: The leader of the party under which they were elected issues appropriate notice to the Speaker that the MP should be expelled, with the seat becoming vacant . Unlike the 2001 act, the 2018 act did not have a sunset clause and so remains in force until it is deliberately repealed. The act was passed as part of the coalition agreement between New Zealand First and the Labour Party and supported through Parliament "begrudgingly" by
486-412: The next available person on the party list . A 2013 Fairfax-Ipsos poll found that 76% of those surveyed oppose MPs staying in Parliament if they leave their party. The implementation of the mixed-member proportional (MMP) electoral system after a referendum in 1993 led to a series of defections and re-alignments as the former two-party system adjusted to the change. This led to the rise and fall of
513-459: The party increased. In particular, the party's parliamentary leader, Anderton, and the party's organisational leader and president, Matt McCarten , became involved in a significant dispute. The causes of the problems are debated by the various actors, but a significant factor appears to be a claim by McCarten's faction that the Alliance was giving too much away to the Labour Party. In addition, McCarten's faction claimed that Anderton's leadership style
540-441: The party's governing council. The party organisation expelled Anderton and his supporters, with Anderton announcing his intentions of establishing a new party. However, because of an electoral law , Anderton did not officially leave the Alliance's parliamentary wing, even if he had left the party itself – doing so would have required his resignation from parliament, a step he was unwilling to take. Anderton had supported this law as
567-563: The role of deputy prime minister to Labour's Michael Cullen , the Minister of Finance and deputy leader of Labour. Robson, who had been Minister of Corrections, Minister for Courts, Minister for Land Information, and Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs in the previous government, lost his cabinet posts. Shortly before the 2005 election , the official name of the party was changed again, this time to "Jim Anderton's Progressive", to facilitate voter recognition on ballot papers. In those elections,
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621-479: The vote, and Laila Harré lost to Lynne Pillay in the Waitakere electorate, meaning the Alliance won no electorate seats. The Progressives took up the Alliance's old position as Labour's junior coalition partner. However, as the Progressives brought fewer seats to the coalition than the Alliance had, the new party's influence was not as great. Anderton retained his position as Minister of Economic Development but lost
648-442: Was "Get things done". The Progressive Party was established by a faction of the Alliance, a left-wing party that does not presently hold seats in Parliament but was once the third-largest party there. Having won ten seats in the 1999 election , the Alliance went into coalition with Labour, forming a government with Anderton as deputy prime minister . Towards the end of the parliamentary term, tensions between different factions of
675-402: Was "autocratic", and that the parliamentary wing was failing to heed the concerns of the party's membership. Anderton rejected the latter charge, and he claimed that criticism of the Alliance's ties to Labour were "extremist" and would nullify the party's ability to influence government policy. The conflict gradually became more and more severe until Anderton eventually demanded the resignation of
702-471: Was returned to power, however, Anderton was able to retain his place in government. In the 2008 election the Progressive Party gained 0.91% of the vote. Anderton retained his electorate seat and remained in Parliament representing the party. In an unusual move, Anderton announced that he would remain in coalition with Labour in opposition. Jim Anderton announced his retirement from Parliament from
729-481: Was then referred to the justice select committee. After the 2020 New Zealand general election , the bill's second reading was held on 12 May and 14 June 2021, and the Labour Party used its majority of 65 seats to block its passage. Below is a list of members who left their party while in parliament. With the introduction of MMP came list MPs, and the potential for a member to be brought into parliament without being voted upon directly. MPs elected to parliament before
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