NEW DELHI: New Zealand’s youngest MP, 22-year-old Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, once again grabbed global headlines as she staged a strong chant, a standard Māori problem, while tearing up a copy of the questionable Treaty Principles Bill during a legislative session.
The Te Pati Maori MP’s picture, which showed her breaking up a document, immediately received widespread support from the community. The chant quickly spread to the opposition benches and the main museum, resulting in Maipi-Clarke being suspended and the chamber cleared.
The bill passed its first checking despite the outcry, and it will now proceed to a public distribution stage before a second vote. Next year, thousands of protesters are expected to move on Parliament to protest the act, highlighting the strong groups it has exposed in New Zealand world.
The costs, focused on the Treaty of Waitangi signed in 1840, seeks to establish the treaty’s rules as applying evenly to all New Zealanders. This action has drawn intense opposition, with some claiming that it causes racial division and affects Mori right.
The president’s artist, David Seymour, head of the ACT group, argues that his plan aims to bring clarity to the treaty’s rules. According to Seymour,” What all of these rules have in common is that they give Mori distinct rights from another New Zealanders.”
While not opposing the act, Premier Christopher Luxon’s group was given the opportunity to support it as part of a political agreement with Seymour’s party. Members of the opposition reacted in indignation with this decision. ” Shame! Shame! Shame on you, David Seymour”, shouted Willie Jackson, a Māori senator, before being ejected from the room. ” Shame on you for what you’re trying to do to this region”.
