High Court reinstates Mariameno Kapa-Kingi as Te Pāti Māori MP
Te Pāti Māori MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi has been reinstated after an interim judgment by the High Court.
The Te Tai Tokerau MP had sought the injunction against her party’s decision to expel her, claiming her expulsion breached numerous parts of the constitution.
On Friday, Justice Paul Radich confirmed to Stuff that Kapa-King should be reinstated as a member of Te Pāti Māori, with a full hearing into the matter in February.
There’s an ancient Māori proverb, ‘It’s all Tikanga until the lawyers get involved”.
The High Court has dealt te Pati Māori Leadership a terrible body blow with this ruling and sets in motion the worst of all world outcomes, mutually assured destruction as the factions start their doom loop towards an event horizon.
At least with a clean cut win for the Leadership, they could have attempted to limp on towards the election, but with this huge win for Mariameno, the AGM could be a bloodbath.
Apparently te Pati Māori Leadership are a bigger threat than National, ACT and NZF.
What a terribly sad state of affairs.
I’m not sure with the level of animosity between the factions that there can be any reconciliation and not will just be a death spiral until one faction wipes out the other.
Meanwhile Sean Plunkett, Don Brash, Mike Hosking, David Seymour, Chris Luxon and Winston Peters sing and dance for joy.
Homelessness explodes, unemployment soars, the economy is in fee fall, the climate is burning, 600 000 need food banks monthly and te Pati Māori are too busy self mutilating itself.
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Good old legals just when they need to think about right behaviour and stability of democratic systems, they go for some sentimentality based on ‘not fair’. The law is like musical chairs when it comes to courtrooms I think.