2020 JUL 26 Live From Logan Campbell Center NZPP Advance NZ Launch

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TIMES.CO.NZ HEADLINES: Advance NZ launches alliance of parties for Election 2020

Advance NZ, the political party formed by independent Botany MP Jami-Lee Ross, has today merged with the NZ Public Party to form an alliance of parties.

The newly-merged Advance NZ will form the basis for a range of small parties outside of Parliament to come together to stand under one umbrella.

“Our political system is fast becoming one where there are two big party blocs, and no viable third option sitting in the middle”, said Ross.

“By forming an alliance of parties, together with other small parties that believe in greater freedom and democracy, we stand a stronger chance of uniting together and crossing the 5 per cent threshold in to Parliament.

“The only times in MMP’s history where small parties have had a realistic chance to enter parliament and bring a diversity of views to the table, has been when a sitting MP has formed a party, or where the Alliance Party brought a range of entities together.

“In the past few weeks we have met with leaders or board members of around different parties. Some are considering merging, while others are still talking with their senior personnel,” Ross said in a media release.

“Advance NZ is the new Alliance Party of the 2020s, but a centrist version of that model.”

Advance NZ is in the final stages of registration as a political party.

The merger with the NZ Public Party will see NZPP maintain their own identity and board, but stand candidates under a shared party list as Advance NZ.

The Leader of NZPP, Billy Te Kahika will stand as a candidate in Te Tai Tokerau for NZPP, while all other candidates will stand as Advance NZ candidates.

The model will see other small parties joining, with a shared campaign committee, and the leaders of those additional component parties able to stand in the leader’s seat under their own brand.

Ross says under the Electoral Act 1993, a candidate winning a seat for one of the component parties counts towards the one seat threshold for Advance NZ’s party votes to count.

The co-leaders of Advance NZ will be Billy Te Kahika and Jami-Lee Ross.

“This alliance of parties ensures all component parties don’t lose unique attributes but by merging together we combine resources, skills, and policies to take to the Electorate,” said Te Kahika.

“We formed the NZ Public Party because we could see our people crying out for a party to stand up for our freedoms, our sovereignty.

“I didn’t set out to stand for politics this election. But now we are in a war for our democracy and freedoms and I decided that as a genuine, everyday Kiwi I would fight to defend our children’s futures.

“We have formed a movement of everyday people that want to take our country back.

“And now by uniting with other parties outside of Parliament, we stand a good chance to take the establishment head on.

“Labour and National are cut from the same cloth. Labour hasn’t delivered for our people, and National doesn’t represent anything new.

“This merger of Advance and NZPP is the start of something new and special. 

“The past two months have been a whirlwind of hope and opportunity for NZPP. Now we are pleased to be taking our messages directly into the election.”

Original Source: Date-stamped: 2020 JUL 26 | Author: Staff | Article Title: Advance NZ launches alliance of parties for Election 2020 | Article Link: times.co.nz

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SCOOP.CO.NZ headlines: Billy Te Kahika Takes Democracy Fight To The Heart Of Government

The Co-Leader of the newly merged Advance NZ Party, Billy Te Kahika, will take his fight for democracy to the heart of government by going head to head with Kelvin Davis.

“Our rights and freedoms are being eroded by this Government’s policies, and their failure to delivery for our people up north.

“Te Tai Tokerau¹⁾The North is my home and where my wife and children whakapapa²⁾genealogy to.

“I grew up in a state house myself and have built an economic base from very humble beginnings from lots of hard work.

“Now I live on a small farm with my whanau, we home school our children and we live a very quiet and humble home life.

“But we are in a war for our democracy and freedoms, and I decided that as a genuine, everyday Kiwi I would fight to defend our children’s futures.

“Our people deserve better, and Labour have taken support in the Tai Tokerau³⁾North for granted every time it is in Government and they have failed to deliver anything for our people.

“Kelvin Davis hasn’t delivered for Maori or even the Maori Tourism Sector as Minister of Tourism. Our people are just as poor, just as jobless, just as homeless as they were before and all I see when I examine Labour’s and his performance is they have done literally nothing.

“And Kelvin is the number two in the Labour Party. If Kelvin can’t deliver, it’s time for him to step aside and let real leadership with backbone serve our people’.

“Te Tai Tokerau⁴⁾The North doesn’t tolerate under performing MPs. That’s why in the last 30 years Labour has lost this seat more often than it has won it.

“I like Kelvin as a person, but now people in this rohe⁵⁾area tell me he is just ‘another Kūpapa⁶⁾Neutral Maori’ which is tough to hear but is the feedback I am hearing.

“At the same time I will stand for the NZ Public Party as the candidate in Te Tai Tokerau⁸⁾The North.

“As your MP for Te Tai Tokerau⁹⁾The North I will ensure we deliver more jobs for our people, more economic hope and opportunity, and more housing – but housing projects that will enable more Maori ownership. Not just simple social housing that equates to continual offering of a road to nowhere and in a slum, low socioeconomic environment.

“These are the fundamental necessities of life that we are losing around here with Maori living in cars and even in tree huts which underlines we have a government under Labour that continues to fail us.

“I am a small businessman and entrepreneur. I will bring together agencies in the north to create real business based economic development opportunities.

“We will fast track work to bring the Auckland Port to the North to create jobs.

“We will invest in high quality fast build housing to speed up new homes for our people, and housing near the new sources of employment.

“We will work with our whanau, hapu, and iwi to make greater use of our natural resources to generate jobs and grow our local economy. Local projects such as Maara Kai¹⁰⁾Food Garden projects will also have some priority so that we utilise our whenua¹¹⁾Land to feed our whanau¹²⁾NZ Family and create income.

“That’s how our nation started – Maori living from the land, surviving with the land, and in control of our own destiny.

“If the Tai Tokerau¹³⁾North sends Billy Te Kahika to the Beehive, Billy Te Kahika will bring back our own putea for our own people and our own future.

“I will fight hard to get the best – not just as political speak but from a sense of it being time for justice and outcomes for our people.”

ENDS.

Original Source: Date-stamped: 2020 JUL 26 | Time-stamped: 1:15 pm | Author: Press Release: Advance New Zealand | Article Title: Billy Te Kahika Takes Democracy Fight To The Heart Of Government | Article Link: scoop.co.nz

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