Will NZ First survive Winston Peters?

Winston Peters says "of course" New Zealand First will last another 25 years.

The Acting Prime Minister was talking to Mark Sainsbury on RadioLIVE on Friday morning when he launched an attack on the media.

"All commentators, election after election after election, say" polls say you're going to be gone, they're finished "and everything else – and then just to cover up their twisted setbacks they say" but you can never exclude it. "

" Now make your decision, buddy – 25 years we survived and the third longest surviving party. "

NZ First was formed in 1993 after the resignation Mr. Peters National after being informed that he would not be a candidate for the party, he was first independent in the 1993 Tauranga by-election, winning 90 percent of the vote.

The newly formed party won two general seats in 1993. Elections, before the introduction of the MMP in 1996, they raised them to 17 seats and a place alongside National in the government led by Jim Bolger

It has been a mixed bag since , twice helping the government of the government under Helen Clark and Jacinda Ardern – but being completely eliminated from Parliament in 2008. [19659002] Mr. Peters, 73, has not announced a privileged successor as a leader. But he is clearly waiting for the party to survive him.

"Of course we are going to go for the next 25 years, we have lasted a quarter century, we are going for half a century now."

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