Māori Party

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Māori Party
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The Māori Party (Māori: Te Pāti Māori) is an indigenous rights-based centre-left political party in New Zealand.
Tariana Turia founded the party in 2004 after resigning from the governing centre-left Labour Party, in which she
was a minister, over the foreshore and seabed ownership controversy. She and Pita Sharples, a high-profile
academic, became the first co-leaders.

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The party won four Māori seats in the 2005 election and went into Opposition. After the 2008,
2011 and 2014 elections, where the party won five, three and two Māori seats respectively, it
supported a government led by the centre-right National Party, with the co-leaders being
ministers outside cabinet. Sharples resigned as male co-leader in 2013 and was replaced by Te
Ururoa Flavell, who became a minister after the 2014 election. Turia retired in 2014 and was
replaced by Marama Fox as female co-leader. The Māori Party failed to win any seats in the
2017 election and left Parliament.

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Principles and policies.
The Māori Party was formed in response to the 2004 foreshore and seabed controversy, a debate about whether Māori have
legitimate claim to ownership of part or all of New Zealand's foreshore and seabed. Tariana Turia resigned as a member of
parliament for the Labour Party to form a party that would give Māori an independent voice from the two major parties.
The party believed that:
• Māori owned the foreshore and seabed before British
colonisation;
• The Treaty of Waitangi made no specific mention of
foreshore or seabed;
• No-one has subsequently purchased or otherwise acquired
the foreshore or the seabed; and
• Māori should therefore still own the seabed and the foreshore
today.

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These principles enable the Māori Party to be held accountable for the maintenance and furthering of Māori concepts in the
decision-making process. These concepts are not reflected in the traditional Westminster system and Māori customary law
is excluded from the New Zealand general legal system. The Māori Party aims to advance the status of Māori people by
advocating policies that restore Māori cultural foundations to New Zealand's political system by providing an independent
Māori voice.
Māori are the indigenous people of New Zealand. Increasingly since the beginning of colonisation, the group has been
marginalised and is now a minority within New Zealand alongside Pacific Islanders. In providing an independent Māori
voice, the Māori Party's focus on affordable housing, Māori recruitment into tertiary institutes and a living wage for all
workers is based on the premise that Māori are among the low-socio economic communities in New Zealand who are the
most disadvantaged when it comes to national inequality
Several key party policies have included:
1. The upholding of indigenous values
2. Compulsory "heritage studies" in schools
3. Māori ownership of the foreshore and the seabed

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Leadership.
In December 2012, Tariana Turia announced she would resign as
party co-leader before the 2014 election. Te Ururoa Flavell
announced his interest in a leadership role, but as the Māori
Party constitution requires male and female co-leaders, he could
not take Turia's place. Shortly after this, in July 2013, Sharples
resigned as co-leader, saying he would quit politics altogether
come the next general election in 2014. He went on to say that
"Our supporters deserve a unified party" which indicated that the
leadership tension influenced his decision to resign as party coleader. Flavell replaced him as the party's male co-leader. In the
2014 General Election, Marama Fox became the party's first List
MP, and – as the party's only female Member of Parliament –
under the party rules automatically became female co-leader.

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The party also has a president:
2004–2009: Whatarangi Winiata
2010–2013: Pem Bird
2013–2016: Naida Glavish
2016–2017: Tuku Morgan
2018–present: Che Wilson
Pem Bird
Tuku Morgan
Naida Glavish

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