What is New Zealand First?
[[File:NZ First logo 2017.png|right|250px]] '''New Zealand First''' ({{lang-mi|Aotearoa Tuatahi}}),<ref>{{cite web|title= Ngā Rōpū Pāremata|url= https://www.parliament.nz/mi/mps-and-electorates/political-parties/|publisher= New Zealand Parliament Pāremata Aotearoa|access-date= 5 May 2017|language= mi}}</ref> commonly abbreviated to '''NZ First''',<ref>{{cite web|title= New Zealand First Party|url= https://www.parliament.nz/en/mps-and-electorates/political-parties/new-zealand-first-party/|publisher= New Zealand Parliament Pāremata Aotearoa|access-date= 25 July 2017|language= en|archive-date= 9 August 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200809115552/https://www.parliament.nz/en/mps-and-electorates/political-parties/new-zealand-first-party/|url-status= dead}}</ref> is a [[Nationalism |nationalist]] and [[Social conservatism|socially conservative]] [[political party]] in [[New Zealand]]. The party formed in July 1993 following the resignation on 19 March 1993 of its leader and founder, [[Winston Peters]]. It has formed [[coalition government]]s with both major political parties in New Zealand: first with the National Party from 1996 to 1998 and then with the [[New Zealand Labour Party|Labour Party]] from 2005 to 2008 and from 2017 to 2020, and then again with the National Party from 2023 to 2027. ==References== {{reflist}} {{politics-stub}} [[Category:1990s establishments in New Zealand]] [[Category:1993 establishments]] [[Category:Political parties in New Zealand]]