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Post by Kiwi Frontline on Aug 13, 2018 17:17:24 GMT 12
REMOVING MĀORI SEATS TOO DIVISIVE, BRIDGES SAYSRemoving the Māori seats - part of an ACT policy to get the number of seats in Parliament down to 100 - would be too divisive, says National Party leader Simon Bridges. ACT leader David Seymour announced the policy, which is in a new private member's bill, at his party's annual conference in Auckland on Sunday. Bridges said on Monday that in principle National's policy was that the Māori seats should go over time, but the party had made no moves in recent years to do that. "Let's be honest, it would be incredibly divisive. I think we'd see protests like we've never seen before. So you've got to say, would it be worth it?" Bridges told The AM Show..... www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/106211324/removing-mori-seats-too-divisive-bridges-says
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