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|seats2_title = |seats2 = |seats3_title = |seats3 = |seats4_title = |seats4 = |symbol = |flag = |website = (www.unitedfuture.org.nz ) |country = New Zealand |country2 = |state = |footnotes = }} United Future New Zealand,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Constitution of United Future New Zealand )〕 usually known as United Future, is a registered New Zealand political party. With the formation of the 50th New Zealand Parliament after the 2011 election,〔http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/mpp/parties/〕 it had a single member of the Parliament of New Zealand – party leader Peter Dunne, an electorate MP – and it has signed a confidence and supply agreement with the National Party, making it, along with ACT and the Maori Party, a support partner to the minority National government. The result of the 2014 general election was much the same for United Future, with Peter Dunne remaining the only MP from his party.〔http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/mpp/mps/current/〕 ==Formation and early success== United Future was formed from the merger of liberal centrist party United New Zealand and Christian-dominated conservative Future New Zealand to contest the 2002 election. United, formed as a centrist party by a group of moderate Labour and National MPs, held one seat in parliament—that of Dunne. Future New Zealand, which was not represented in parliament, was a "secularised" evolution of the Christian Democrats, following the same basic principles as the Christian Democrats, but abandoning the explicit religious connection. United Future's first party president, Inky Tulloch, stated that "United Future isn't a Christian party – it's a political party that has a lot of Christians in it, and a lot of non-Christians." Tulloch said that the "universal principles of family, of common sense, of looking after one another, of compassion, integrity" are equally valuable to both Christians and non-Christians. Support for United Future, which was already growing in early 2002, was boosted further by Peter Dunne's strong television debating performance and the public response to it. The uplift in United Future support during the last two weeks of the campaign caught many commentators by surprise and drew votes away from National, Labour and the Green parties, who were engaged in a public squabble over genetic engineering. United Future made a strong showing in the 2002 election, taking 6.7 percent of the vote and eight seats: Dunne's electorate seat of Ohariu-Belmont and seven list seats.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://www.electionresults.govt.nz/electionresults_2002/partystatus.html )〕 It would have been assured of getting into parliament in any event, however; under New Zealand's mixed-member proportional system, any party that wins at least one electorate seat qualifies for list seats even if it falls short of the five-percent threshold. The party faced a minor embarrassment after the election, however, when it was discovered that one of its list MPs, Kelly Chal, was not a New Zealand citizen, and thus ineligible to stand for parliament. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「United Future」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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