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. -end-