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New Zealand Parliament votes for record suspensions of 3 lawmakers who performed Māori haka protest

New Zealand Parliament votes for record suspensions of 3 lawmakers who performed Māori haka protest
New Zealand Parliament votes for record suspensions of 3 lawmakers who performed Māori haka protest



Wellington
AP
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New Zealand legislators voted Thursday to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law.

Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke received a seven-day ban and the leaders of her political party, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi, were barred for 21 days. Three days had been the longest ban for a lawmaker from New Zealand’s Parliament before.

The lawmakers from Te Pāti Māori, the Māori Party, performed the haka, a chanting dance of challenge, last November to oppose a widely unpopular bill, now defeated, that they said would reverse Indigenous rights.

But the…

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