Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 16, 2024 14:46:36 GMT 12
THE MAORI SEATS IN PARLIAMENT, AN ANACHRONISM - Anthony Willy
It is astonishing to see allegations of these practices emerging in New Zealand in November 2023 in a Maori Electorate and one in which a former Labour MP with a wealth of experience of Parliamentary and electoral practices has considerable influence.
It is also concerning that the statistics Office and the Electoral Commission were aware of these complaints but did nothing about them. So alarming are these allegations including the failure of the two statutory bodies most closely concerned to take the matter seriously that no less than twelve government bodies are presently conducting enquires as to what went on with the polling at that electorate. It may be that the Prime Minister’s department e may become involved.
Of course, these are only allegations and hotly denied by Mr. Tamihere but one thing is clear. If he is correctly reported, he knew that voters at the Mare were being offered meal vouchers and other refreshments. He dismisses this as “Tikanga,” the tribal tradition that visitors to a Marae must be given refreshment, and goes on to say that he is not bound by non-Maori “tikanga” even though enshrined in legislation passed by the New Zealand Parliament in which he once served as an Member.
If this is his attitude to Electoral law binding on all New Zealanders, then the poison of the racial separatism promoted and pursued by the Ardern Government has now entered and corrupted our electoral processes and one wonders what electoral practices might have been adopted in other Maori seats, Mr Tamihere being the President of the Maori Party. Has the clock been turned back to Old Sarum 1832.....
www.nzcpr.com/the-maori-seats-in-parliament-an-anachronism/
It is astonishing to see allegations of these practices emerging in New Zealand in November 2023 in a Maori Electorate and one in which a former Labour MP with a wealth of experience of Parliamentary and electoral practices has considerable influence.
It is also concerning that the statistics Office and the Electoral Commission were aware of these complaints but did nothing about them. So alarming are these allegations including the failure of the two statutory bodies most closely concerned to take the matter seriously that no less than twelve government bodies are presently conducting enquires as to what went on with the polling at that electorate. It may be that the Prime Minister’s department e may become involved.
Of course, these are only allegations and hotly denied by Mr. Tamihere but one thing is clear. If he is correctly reported, he knew that voters at the Mare were being offered meal vouchers and other refreshments. He dismisses this as “Tikanga,” the tribal tradition that visitors to a Marae must be given refreshment, and goes on to say that he is not bound by non-Maori “tikanga” even though enshrined in legislation passed by the New Zealand Parliament in which he once served as an Member.
If this is his attitude to Electoral law binding on all New Zealanders, then the poison of the racial separatism promoted and pursued by the Ardern Government has now entered and corrupted our electoral processes and one wonders what electoral practices might have been adopted in other Maori seats, Mr Tamihere being the President of the Maori Party. Has the clock been turned back to Old Sarum 1832.....
www.nzcpr.com/the-maori-seats-in-parliament-an-anachronism/