Māori Party
Tariana Turia founded the party in 2004 after resigning from the governing centre-left Labour Party. She and Pita Sharples, a high-profile academic, became the first co-leaders. The party won four Māori seats in the 2005 election and went into Opposition. After the 2008, 2011 and 2014 elections, it supported a government led by the centre-right National Party. The MāORI Party failed to win seats at the 2017 election, but at the 2020 election, the party returned to Parliament when Rawiri Waititi won the Waiariki electorate.
About Māori Party in brief
Tariana Turia founded the party in 2004 after resigning from the governing centre-left Labour Party. She and Pita Sharples, a high-profile academic, became the first co-leaders. The party won four Māori seats in the 2005 election and went into Opposition. After the 2008, 2011 and 2014 elections, it supported a government led by the centre-right National Party. The MāORI Party failed to win seats at the 2017 election, but at the 2020 election, the party returned to Parliament when Rawiri Waititi won the Waiariki electorate – even though the Party’s share of the overall country-wide vote declined from 1. 18% to 1. 17%. Since the Mā ORi Party gained 1.17% of the Overall vote, winning WaiAriki gave it the right to bring a second MP into Parliament. Its current co- leaders, Rawiri. Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, are also its two Members of Parliament. The Party was formed in response to the 2004 foreshore and seabed controversy, a debate about whether Māory have legitimate claim to ownership of part or all of New Zealand’s foreshore. A court judgement stated that some Makaori appeared to have the right. to seek formal ownership of a specific portion of seabing in the Marlborough Sounds. This prospect alarmed many sectors of New. Zealand society, and the Labour Party foreshadowed legislation in favour of state ownership instead. This angered many M Kaori, including many of Labour’s Māore MPs.
Two MPs representing Māoria electorates announced an intent to vote against the legislation. Tariana. Turia and Nanaia Mahuta, announced that voting against the government would appear ‘incompatible’ with holding ministerial rank. They and their supporters agreed that the new political organisation would simply use the name ‘Māori Party’. They chose a logo of black and red – incorporating a koru – a traditional Makea design, also incorporating a traditional traditional design. In the election night, the latter entitled the party to only three seats, so the fourth seat caused an hang-over. The latter resulted in the party losing the vote under the 2% vote count, and it was underrepresented in the House of Representatives. It was formally established on 7 July 2004 and won four out of seven Mori seats, and 2 out of 12 seats under the 5% vote and 2% share. It won five, three and two Māoris seats respectively, where the party won 5, 3 and 2 in the 2014 elections. It supports affordable housing, Mā Mori recruitment into tertiary institutes and a living wage for all workers. It believes policies that restore Mori cultural foundations to New Zealand’s political system by providing an independent Mori voice. It also believes that Mori are among the low-socio economic communities in New Zealand who are the most disadvantaged when it comes to national inequality.
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