Te Pāti Māori

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Abstract is: The Māori Party (Māori: Te Pāti Māori) is a political party in New Zealand advocating indigenous rights. It contests the specially-reserved Māori electorates, in which its main rival is the mainstream centre-left Labour Party. Under the current leadership of Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, it promotes the following policies: uphold tikanga Māori, dismantle systemic racism, and strengthen the rights and tino rangatiratanga promised in Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The political position of the Māori Party is generally described as centrist or centre-left. Tariana Turia founded the Māori Party in 2004 after resigning from the governing Labour Party, in which she served as a minister, over the foreshore and seabed ownership controversy. She and Pita Sharples, a high-profile academic, became the first co-leaders. 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 Māori Party co-leaders serving as ministers outside cabinet. The Māori Party won no seats in the 2017 election, but returned at the 2020 election when Rawiri Waititi won the Waiariki electorate. Although the Māori Party share of the country-wide party vote declined from 1.18% in 2017 to 1.17% in 2020, winning Waiariki gave the party the right to full proportional representation, giving it two MPs, with Debbie Ngarewa-Packer subsequently becoming a list MP. As of 2021, the party's two MPs are also its co-leaders.

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