Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 9, 2022 12:43:09 GMT 12
DEATH KNELL FOR DEMOCRACY WITH RACIST ROTORUA REPRESENTATION BILL – Hobsons Pledge
The co-governance movement is making its most direct attack yet on the fundamental democratic principle of one person, one vote.
Yesterday in the House, Labour List MP Tamati Coffey's Rotorua District Council (Representation Arrangements) Bill passed its first reading, with Labour, the Greens, and the Maori Party in support, while National and Act were opposed.
This Bill not only divides Maori and non-Maori voters, but it gives Maori voters more seats on the Council than their proportion of the population.
The 22,000 Maori Roll voters will get three seats, while the 56,000 General Roll voters also get three seats, DESPITE BEING MORE THAN TWICE THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE.
This kind of arrangement is prohibited under existing electoral law, which requires adherence to the one person, one vote principle. So the Rotorua District Council and Tamati Coffey have brought this Bill to Parliament to override that legal protection for democracy.
Tamati Coffey has sent his Bill to the Maori Affairs Committee, which he chairs with a Labour majority, and has outrageously limited the window for submissions from the public to just two weeks…….
www.hobsonspledge.nz/_death_knell_for_democracy_with_racist_rotorua_representation_bill
The co-governance movement is making its most direct attack yet on the fundamental democratic principle of one person, one vote.
Yesterday in the House, Labour List MP Tamati Coffey's Rotorua District Council (Representation Arrangements) Bill passed its first reading, with Labour, the Greens, and the Maori Party in support, while National and Act were opposed.
This Bill not only divides Maori and non-Maori voters, but it gives Maori voters more seats on the Council than their proportion of the population.
The 22,000 Maori Roll voters will get three seats, while the 56,000 General Roll voters also get three seats, DESPITE BEING MORE THAN TWICE THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE.
This kind of arrangement is prohibited under existing electoral law, which requires adherence to the one person, one vote principle. So the Rotorua District Council and Tamati Coffey have brought this Bill to Parliament to override that legal protection for democracy.
Tamati Coffey has sent his Bill to the Maori Affairs Committee, which he chairs with a Labour majority, and has outrageously limited the window for submissions from the public to just two weeks…….
www.hobsonspledge.nz/_death_knell_for_democracy_with_racist_rotorua_representation_bill