New Zealand First

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New Zealand First, commonly abbreviated to NZ First or NZF, is a right-wing populist political party in New Zealand, founded and led by Winston Peters, who has served three times as deputy prime minister. The party has participated in coalition governments with the New Zealand National Party from 1996 to 1998 and from 2023 to the present, and with the New Zealand Labour Party from 2017 to 2020. From 2005 to 2008, it supported a Labour-led government through a confidence-and-supply agreement. New Zealand First currently serves in a coalition government with both National and ACT New Zealand as part of the Sixth National government, having won 6.08% of the total party vote in the 2023 New Zealand general election. New Zealand First was formed shortly before the 1993 New Zealand general election, following the resignation of Winston Peters as the National Party MP for Tauranga after criticising the party's neoliberal economic policies. The party gained support from National Party and Labour...

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