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210,000 Māori Silenced: Committee Delivers Harshest Punishment In Parliament History
Today the Privileges Committee handed down a severe punishment. Te Pāti Māori Co-leaders Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer have been suspended for 21 days, and MP for Hauraki-Waikato Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke has been suspended for 7 days.
This punishment is unprecedented; these are the three longest suspensions in the history of Parliament in Aotearoa.
This decision will not only silence three MPs; it will silence a quarter of te iwi Māori by taking their representatives out of this House.
Te Pāti Māori MP for Te Tai Tokerau and member of the Privileges Committee Mariameno Kapa-Kingi said that “the process was grossly unjust, unfair, and unwarranted, resulting in an extreme sanction. This was not about process, this became personal.”
They can suspend our MPs, but they can’t suspend our movement.
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