Alliance Prepares For Early Election
The Alliance National Council this weekend endorsed the Party’s List and planned its election campaign in case of an
early election.
Paul Piesse, Alliance co-leader, says the Party is readying for an early election with the Labour-led Government is
coming under increasing pressure. “There is an alternative to shifting further to the right,” Mr Piesse says.
“A vote for the Alliance is a safe way to send a message to the Government that workers, beneficiaries and pensioners
deserve a liveable wage, that they want a return to free education and health, and a return to public ownership and
control of key assets like the electricity industry.”
Mr Piesse says the days of “Alliance Party invisibility” are over.
“As an ex-partner in coalition with Labour from 1999 to 2002, we learnt a bitter lesson. The Alliance is a serious
alternative to centre-right stupidity.”
The Party’s Manifesto ( http://www.alliance.org.nz) outlines Alliance policies, which are based on the socialist principles of democracy, equality and social ownership.
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