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Maori Party urged to walk away
Posted by karere under Maori News
Opposition parties are calling for the Maori Party to walk away from its deal with National.
The Maori Party wants iwi to keep pressure on the Government over the inclusion of Treaty provisions in new legislation paving the way for partial asset sales.
And it has called for iwi leaders to test treaty clauses in the current law, by taking their cases to court.
Labour says if the Treaty is fundamental to the Maori Party, then it can’t see how they can ask others to fight, but remain in a governing arrangement.
The Mana Party says if the Maori Party wants to be seen to be leading, it must walk away from National.
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Labour needs to “shut up”. If consecutive governments since 1840 had been honourable Iwi Maori would not have to “force, both major parties to “treat” with Iwi Maori as 1st people of this land and honour the obligations they have to tangatawhenua. The only people that should be concerned about whether or not Maori Party walk or not is Iwi Maori. Labour Party, National Party and every other party in Parliament should be concerned about how they are behaving toward the 1st People of Aotearoa/Te Waipounamu and not worrying about whether Maori Party walks or not.