Three Māori MPs in New Zealand have received records of suspension up to three weeks on Thursday due to hack protests who performed against the disputed law last year.
MPs arrived in November, the global attention when they performed Haka, a festive singing dance of defiance that is a gentle cultural symbol of New Zealand. They were protested legislation that reinterpretated an 184-year-old founder document in the country, a contract signed between colonial British rulers and indigenous māories.
The Parliamentary Board found three legislators in disrespecting the parliament last month and recommended that they were suspended in three weeks “for action in a way that could have the effect of intimidating the house of the house.”
Debbie People and David Waiti, co-leaders Party Māori, Party Māori Six parliament 123 places, Wereders, WERETS, Weders each.
Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, who is in the 22 youngest legislator of New Zealand, suspended one week at the recommendation of the Board, which said in his report That in a written statement showed a “some drill level”.
Voting was 68-55 against Maipi-Clarkea, 68-54 against Ngarewa-Packer and 68-53 against Waiti, they were all suspended immediately.
It is rarely for New Zealand representatives for receiving such suspensions, which are unpaid, and the longest one was previously suspended for three days.
The opposition work party as well as the Green Party criticized suspensions as disproportionate, and the working party proposes censorship instead.
The three representatives performed the protest haku in November during reading laws that would redefine the Waitangi Treaty. Signed in 1840. Between the Chief of British Crown and Māori, the contract established British governance and the protection structure of Māori and continues to influence politics today.
Legislation brought a small libertarian law on Libertarians New Zealand, who said the contract was misinterpreted that Māori people would provide special treatment.
The critics of the law, which was defeated in April, said that it would annul the decades of Māoriji, who account for about 20 million people of New Zealand and lasts worse than the rest of the households, education and criminal justice.
One of the Māori MPs, Maipi-Clarke, led Hak to narrow a copy of the account, joined other members of Māori and some visitors to the public gallery. The video protest went a virus and gathered hundreds of millions of reviews in social media.
Some legislators complained to the way their colleagues were progressing towards them across the floor.
“This was a very serious incident, whose one liked in his 23 years in the debate,” said Judith Collins National Party in the central right, the chairman of the parliamentary committee issued by the report.
She added that the legislators were hacked without permission and that the disorder suspended the legislative procedure for 30 minutes.
Three Māori MPs refused to appear before the Committee during the investigation, referring to disrespect for his cultural traditions. Their party said that this was “roughly unfairly” and that “it was not in the process, it became personal”.
The Committee said that lawmakers are sanctioned not to perform the haka, but for “time in and the way it was performed.” It was said that the seriousness of sanctions is intended “leave members, no doubt that the behavior was discussed is not acceptable.”
Voting was originally scheduled for last month, but was delayed so that three māori representatives could participate in the debate on the Federal Budget.
The execution of the hack in parliament is not unusual, and is usually seen when members of māori celebrate the passage of a given account. The dance is known abroad for performing the matches of Rugby teams of New Zealand, and variations are performed on remediations and formal greetings.
“Everything in parliament would make it clear that it is a peaceful act of protest in a way that is harmonized with the Mariori tradition,” said Julian Rawiri Kusabs, Maāori at the University of Melbourne in Australia.
Kusabs said that suspension dimming in decades of reconciliation efforts between the Government of New Zealand and Māori, whose members had to move “very complex and often achieving the parliament.
Suspension, he said, amplifies the long-standing perception that “Māori culture was not equally respected in the formal management institutions of New Zealand.”
2025-06-05 06:34:00
