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Contested 5 races — 2 elected 3 not elected
Waititi says he wouldn’t use waka jumping legislation to remove two MPs who challenged his leadership.
“We’re cleaning up our whare,” but caucus would not attempt to expel them before first going to the party membership, the Te Pāti Māori co-leader said.
The party president accused two MPs of plotting a leadership coup and said they should ‘do the honourable thing’ and resign – though many members say it’s he who should go.
Labour MP Arena Williams is one of few people who can dissect the works of Geoffrey Palmer and Sabrina Carpenter in the same breath. Arena Williams’ whakapapa is Ngāti Labour. Her staunch Labour-loving great-grans were able to spend money on Williams’ father, Sir Haare Williams’ education (he once vied for a Labour nomination in 1992) thanks to Michael Joseph Savage’s extension to the old age pension for Māori.
The rapid and public collapse of the once seemingly unified party has members of Te Pāti Māori demanding answers from their leadership, We should all spare a thought for John Tamihere.
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