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ion just three years after its formation neither of the two traditional major parties national and labour had enough seats to govern alone and only new zealand first had enough seats to become a realistic coalition partner for either this placed the relatively new party in a position where it was the kingmaker a position which allowed the party to effectively choose the next prime minister of new zealand new zealand first entered into negotiations with both major parties before the election most people including many new zealand first voters had expected peters to enter into coalition with labour in fact he harshly attacked his former national colleagues during the campaign and appeared to promise that he would not even consider going into coalition with them 29 coalition with national 1996 1998 edit to the surprise of the electorate which had apparently voted for new zealand first to get rid of national new zealand first decided to enter a coalition with national enabling and becoming part of the third term of the fourth national government the most common explanation for this decision involved national s willingness to accept new zealand first s demands and or labour s refusal to do so however michael laws a former national party mp who served as a new zealand first campaign manager claims that peters had secretly decided to go with national significantly before this time and that he merely used negotiations with labour to encourage more concessions from national 30 whatever the case new zealand first exacted a high price from bolger in return for allowing him to stay in power under the terms of a detailed coalition agreement peters would serve as deputy prime minister and would also hold the specially created office of treasurer senior to the minister of finance national also made considerable concessions on policy unusually for a junior coalition partner in a westminster system especially one as new as new zealand first peters was free to select the ministers from his own party without bolger s oversight 31 new zealand first had a relatively smooth coalition relationship with national at first despite early concerns about the ability of peters to work with bolger who had sacked him from cabinet during his time as minister of māori affairs in 1991 14 15 the two did not have major problems new zealand first had graver concerns about the behaviour of some of its mps a particularly damaging scandal involved tuku morgan which consisted of him allegedly spending 4000 in public funds on clothing 32 though the serious fraud office later did not find him guilty of fraud 33 gradually however the coalition tensions became more significant than problems of party discipline this became increasingly the case after transport minister jenny shipley gained enough support within the national party room to force bolger s resignation 34 and to subsequently become new zealand s first woman prime minister on 8 december 1997 the tensions between the two parties also rose as new zealand first adopted a more aggressive approach to promoting its policies including those national would not implement this new attitude probably fed off new zealand first s poor performance in opinion polls which to peters indicated that the party s success rested on its confrontational style many commentators believe that peters performs better in opposition than in government return to opposition edit on 14 august 1998 shipley sacked peters from cabinet this occurred after an ongoing dispute about the sale of the government s stake in wellington international airport 35 directly in conflict with new zealand first s general commitment to not sell off state assets peters immediately tore up the coalition agreement however several other mps unwilling to follow peters into opposition and wanting to continue to support a national led government tried to replace peters as leader of new zealand first with tau henare the then deputy leader this caucus room coup failed and henare eventually led four other new zealand first mps in forming a new party mauri pacific which was a self proclaimed multicultural party three others established themselves as independents all eight departing mps continued to support a national led minority government many of these mps had come under public scrutiny for their behaviour citation needed until the dissolution of parliament in 1999 they provided shipley with enough parliamentary support to stay in government without new zealand first 36 1999 general election edit in the 1999 election new zealand first lost much of its support receiving only 4 of the party vote 37 some voters had not forgiven peters for forming a coalition with national after being led to believe that a vote for him would help get rid of national and others likely changed their vote due to the instability within the party s ranks whatever the case new zealand first s support tailed off enough that it was nearly ejected from parliament under new zealand s mmp system a party must either win an electorate seat or 5 of the vote to qualify for list seats peters held his tauranga electorate by a mere 63 votes after losing almost 20 percent of his vote from 1996 and new zealand first received five seats in total 38 2002 general election edit by the 2002 new zealand general election however the party had rebuilt much of its support this occurred largely because of peters three point campaign for sensible immigration scrutinising treaty costs and reducing crime citation needed the party won 10 38 of the vote which was a considerable improvement on its previous performance although not as good as its performance in 1996 and new zealand first won thirteen seats in parliament 39 peters campaign slogan can we fix it yes we can 40 attracted much media attention as the same line appears in theme music for the children s television programme bob the builder party activists stated they were unaware the chant came from a children s cartoon 41 in the end new zealand first gained 8 seats in parliament after the election earning 13 mps in total including 1 electorate mp winston peters peter brown brian donnelly ron mark doug woolerton barbara stewart pita paraone craig mcnair jim peters dail jones edwin perry bill gudgeon and brent catchpole it appears that new zealand first had hoped to play in 2002 a similar role to the one it had in 1996 where it found itself able to give power to either labour or national depending on which offered the best deal however national s support under the leadership of future prime minister bill english had collapsed to its worst result in the party s history to the extent that it could not form a government even with new zealand first s support depriving the party of its hoped kingmaker position in the end however this proved irrelevant as labour refused to consider an alliance with new zealand first in any case citation needed instead labour relied on support from the newly significant united future after the 2002 election in light of national s decreased strength new zealand first attempted to gain more prominence in opposition frequently attacking the labour led coalition government on a wide range of issues speculation has occurred on efforts to create a more united front linking new zealand first the new zealand national party and act new zealand but peters has rejected this scenario saying that the new zealand voters will decide what alliances are necessary unlike the classical liberal act new zealand which portrays itself as a natural coalition partner for the new zealand national party new zealand first welcomed the potential for a coalition government with any parliamentary political party for a period in early 2004 new zealand first experienced a brief decline in the polls after don brash became leader of the national party a change which hugely revived national s fortunes after the controversial but highly popular orewa speech the votes that had apparently switched to new zealand first from national seemed to return to support don brash and many commentators predicted that new zealand first would lose a number of its seats in the next election citation needed by 2005 however the proportions had changed again and as the campaign for the september 2005 election got under way new zealand first had again reached the 10 mark in opinion polling for the 2005 election pre election polls put new zealand first ahead of the other minor parties some thought it likely that in the event of a national minority or plurality unless act s fortunes dramatically improved don brash would have to form a second coalition or seek a support agreement with new zealand first to be able to form a government peters promised to support the party that won the most seats or at least abstain in no confidence motions against it however he also said he would not support any government that included the greens within cabinet confidence and supply with labour 2005 2008 edit in the 2005 election nzf lost much of its support though it remained the third largest party in the house new zealand first took only 5 72 of the vote a considerable loss from 2002 and just enough to cross the mmp proportionality quota of 5 in addition peters narrowly lost his previously safe constituency seat of tauranga by 730 votes to national s bob clarkson and became a list mp new zealand first lost six seats in parliament earning 7 mps all elected on the party list winston peters peter brown dail jones ron mark doug woolerton barbara stewart and pita paraone following the 2005 election new zealand first agreed to a supply and confidence agreement with the new zealand labour party along with united future in return for policy concessions including the supergold card and the portfolio of foreign affairs outside cabinet for winston peters peters becoming minister of foreign affairs detected a change in his attitude since peters rotorua speech on 7 september 2005 at a public address at the rotorua convention centre had spoken of new zealand first sitting on the cross benches and thus staying out of government and eschewing the baubles of office 42 peters coalition partnership with the centre left labour party was in spite of his increasingly right wing populist rhetoric around emigration from asia which was at odds with labour s policies 43 44 peters has previously warned of an asian invasion of asian migrants against the evidence suggested by statistical trends in 2005 he called new zealand the last asian colony 43 and referred to asian immigration as an imported criminal activity that would cause chaos to race relations 45 soon after the 2005 new zealand general election winston peters launched a legal challenge against bob clarkson alleging that he had spent more than the legal limit allowed for campaign budgets during elections in new zealand this legal bid failed with a majority of the judges in the case declaring that bob clarkson had not overspent during the campaign for the tauranga electorate in the 2005 election funding controversy the auditor general found that all the parties in parliament except the progressive party had misspent parliamentary funding new zealand first was the only party that did not repay the misspent funding 46 new zealand first achieved many policy initiatives during this term most notably the introduction of the supergold card a policy which was unpopular among many political leaders due to its high cost the supergold card was targeted towards seniors and included free off peak travel and discounts from thousands of new zealand businesses as minister of foreign affairs minister for racing and associate minister for senior citizens peters secured additional funding for new zealand to expand its international presence in the 2007 budget 47 as well as in the 2008 budget additional benefits for supergold card holders including funding for hearing aids investments into the pacific cooperation foundation and asia new zealand foundation additional funding for prize money in the racing industry totalling 9m and a large funding increase for the ministry of foreign affairs and trade once again 48 as minister of foreign affairs winston peters most notable actions included a diplomatic mission to papua new guinea and meeting with united states secretary of state condoleezza rice 49 50 2008 general election edit in the months before the 2008 general election new zealand first became embroiled in a dispute over donations to the party from billionaire owen glenn the vela family and bob jones this resulted in an investigation into party finances by the serious fraud office on 28 august 2008 and an investigation into peters by the privileges committee 51 on 29 august 2008 peters stood down from his ministerial roles after significant pressure while the investigations by the serious fraud office and privileges committee proceeded 52 although the serious fraud office and the police found that peters was not guilty of any wrongdoing the privileges committee decided that peters knowingly misled parliament by not declaring the donation 53 and censured peters which he called a useless facade 53 the whole scandal harmed new zealand first s polling in the lead up to the election and is widely attributed to its defeat 54 during the scandal leader of the opposition john key took the opportunity to rule out working with peters and new zealand first which likely contributed further to the party s defeat as expected prime minister helen clark did not rule out working with new zealand first on election night it was clear that peters had not regained the tauranga seat after his last loss of the electorate in the 2005 election and with 4 of party votes had not met the 5 threshold needed for parties to be elected without an electorate seat in what some journalists described as a gracious concession speech peters said that it s not over yet we ll reorganise ourselves in the next few months and we ll see what 2011 might hold for all us sic 55 at a post election meeting held to discuss the party s future in february 2009 long serving deputy leader peter brown stepped down 56 2011 general election edit at the beginning of the election campaign new zealand first was polling at around 2 in most major polls and was effectively written off by most political commentators prime minister john key had once again ruled out working with peters and new zealand first however then leader of the opposition phil goff had stated he was open to working with new zealand first post election provided they made it back into parliament citation needed peters received a significant amount of media attention towards the end of the campaign at the height of the tea tape scandal which arose during the campaign peters had criticised the arrangement in the seat of epsom between national and act in which national encouraged its supporters to vote for the act candidate for their electorate mp he railed against national for alleged negati...