Paul Piesse

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Paul Piesse at the 2007 Alliance party conference

Paul Egerton Piesse is a co-leader of the Alliance, a New Zealand political party.

Piesse has been heavily involved in the union movement, and has held a number of senior organisational roles. He was originally a supporter of the Labour Party, but joined NewLabour in protest of the economic policies Labour pursued in the late 1980s. NewLabour eventually helped form the Alliance, and Piesse became involved in the new party. In the 1999, he stood as the Alliance candidate in the Christchurch East electorate, winning 6.7% of the vote. He was ranked 58th on the Alliance list.

Following the splintering of the Alliance, Piesse sided with the Harré-McCarten faction. In the 2002 election, he stood again as an Alliance candidate, gaining 0.5% of the vote in Waimakariri. He was not on the party list. After Harré and McCarten also left the Alliance, Piesse was elected co-leader, alongside Jill Ovens.

Piesse was elected President of the Alliance Party at the 2007 national conference held in Dunedin. In the 2008 election he contested the Christchurch East electorate and was number 4 on the Alliance Party list. He fared poorly, coming eighth with only 119 votes.^[1] The Alliance also did badly, winning only 0.08% of the party vote nationwide.^[2]

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Party Leaders	Jim Anderton Sandra Lee Laila Harré Matt McCarten Jill Ovens Paul Piesse Len Richards Victor Billot Kay Murray Andrew McKenzie

Former Parliamentarians	Jim Anderton Sandra Lee Gilbert Myles Hamish MacIntyre Phillida Bunkle Pam Corkery Rod Donald Jeanette Fitzsimons Grant Gillon Liz Gordon Frank Grover Laila Harré Alamein Kopu Matt Robson John Wright Kevin Campbell Willie Jackson

Component Parties	Democrats Greens Liberals Mana Motuhake NewLabour

Related articles	Progressives City Vision Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand

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