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Article: Alliance party nearing end
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- Sunday Star-Times
- Article date:
- November 28, 2004
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JIM ANDERTON is less than grief-stricken to be observing what he
diagnoses as the death throes of his former Alliance party.
"It's like a Greek tragedy - I always knew how it would end, and
it did," he says, doing a bad job of concealing his obvious glee.
At this weekend's Alliance conference, which may be the last,
president Matt McCarten (who is now campaign manager for the Maori
Party) quit; and Alliance leader Laila Harre also stood down.
"Where are they holding their conference? In a telephone box?"
Anderton guffawed.
"Not to put too fine a point on it, I saw the dysfunctional nature
of that ...