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.
100% The law is an ass.
Mariameno could defect to Labour and run in her already Maori seat .I like her and she would be an asset with proper professional management of the Maori caucus in the Labour’s party
Total fuck up but who btw is the judge??? And why oh why at this critical time cannot Maoridom say tiaho to the grifters – literally or figuratively- rebels to shut the fuck up until after the election. Or since that option is burned just shut the fuck up and GO AWAY until AFTER the fucking election. What drop kicks. Fuck you for fucking things up big time dickheads
wHERE THERE IS SMOKE THERE IS FIRE .Clearly the Tamihere take over is there for fresh eyes to see .
Don’t be stupid. Anyway if you or anyone had a problem with JT et al then now is not the time to air it. How stupid snd dumb and ridiculous to boot. Those two have rat fucked the Māori Party and the lot of us at the critical time by burning TPM because they seemingly hate the leadership. Hey that argument doesn’t hold water because it’s been that way since they had such a great victory. They should have stood as independents. What dumb asses, even Tim Selwin concerns that and he seems to have an abiding grudge against JT. Well, why?
Oh how things have changed in recent months .At the begining of this year ERU was a bloody hero for his massive Hikoi on Parliament .Now because that same hero points out that TPM has been taken over buy the family he is relegated to shit .
Clearly the late Tash Kemp was the glue that kept TPM together .Since her death there has been a land grab within of colonial proportions .
I will be voting green or red now TPM have lost a large number of voters in my family alone .
I suspect that if ERU was organising the Hikoi on Parliament alone, they would not have arrived there yet so your use of hero to describe him seems a misleading way to describe someone who is opportunistic at best. I recall an experience with a Maori version of a church in the 1970-80s that also went offtrack as some Maori wanted to uphold the biblical church doctrines, and other Maori wanted to have Maori tradition over biblical doctrine. The church no longer exists and that could well be the sad outcome of TMP unless people learn to ignore their ego and work together.
Gordon W Scroll down the hysteria. We want outcomes that are good for all people. We don’t want bad people at the top, but finding fault with people standing for something is just being natural critical Kiwis. I suggest don’t overdo the natural. We have to compress it sometimes and put a thinking brain in charge of our subconscious urge to go on about our wishes and beliefs. Stop and breathe – are we right? Could there still be a good outcome even if we’re partly right and yet things don’t work out as we decided