Former National MP turned independent candidate Jami-Lee Ross is attempting to emulate the success of the Alliance Party to a bid to get back into Parliament.

Ross – who now heads the Advance New Zealand party – has announced his party is merging with several other smaller parties.

In Auckland this afternoon, he announced his party would merge with the little-known New Zealand Public Party, which believes "mandatory vaccination [are] a violation of human rights".

The party also appears to be against 5G technology, 1080, "fluoridation" and electromagnets.

Speaking to the Herald, Ross – who dramatically split from National in late 2018 – said he was in conversation with another six smaller parties about joining the new amalgamated Advance NZ.

He would not, however, reveal who he was in talks with at this stage other than the fact some have agreed to form a political union ahead of the election.

The Opportunities Party leader Geoff Simons said he had been approached by Ross, but said his party would be "steering clear of that".

Ross said his plan was based on the structure and makeup of the Alliance Party, which was formed in 1991 but lost most of its influence in the early 2000s.

It was made up of a number of smaller parties, which united under the leadership of former Labour MP, Jim Anderton.

At its height in 1996, New Zealand's first MMP election, it won 10 per cent of the total vote and had thirteen MPs.

But, after years of infighting, the party split and faded into relative obscurity in the early 2000s – it official dissolved in 2015.