Chris Leitch (politician)

As president, Leitch changed the party structure in 1989 from nineteen regions to seven divisions with the goal of spreading resources more fairly and giving members at the electorate level a greater say in policy development.

The party would then hold seven divisional conferences a year instead of the previous three, in a bid to generate publicity for its policies.

[7] He was selected to be the Alliance candidate at the 1992 Tamaki by-election caused by the resignation of Sir Robert Muldoon.

[10][11] Soon after his Tamaki campaign he stood as a candidate at the 1992 local-body elections for the newly created Auckland Regional Services Trust on the Alliance ticket and was successful.

[17] Under Leitch's leadership the party increased activities frequently putting out press releases and occasionally full-page ads in newspapers.

[18] On 8 February 2022, Social Credit released a press statement advocating for an end to the government's vaccine mandate.

[18] Leitch later called for the government to compensate all people who lost their jobs due to vaccine mandate regulations.