{"id":5867,"date":"2015-06-22T08:20:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T19:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=5867"},"modified":"2015-06-23T23:28:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T10:28:51","slug":"maori-party-and-mana-movement-break-the-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=5867","title":{"rendered":"Maori Party and Mana Movement break the ice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"avatr\"<\/a>\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder<\/p>\n

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Left: Ian Heihei (Mana) Right: Martin Cooper (Maori)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In an historical meeting between the Maori party and the Mana Movement for a\u00a0potential alliance in which the big parties stand to lose out. This alliance has the potential to make 15% of the Maori population king maker. You don’t need to be a mathematician to do the numbers on how these organisations working together can\u00a0secure the lions share of the Maori electoral seats.<\/p>\n

Naida Glavish the president of the Maori party made this statement prior to the Mana-Maori meeting \u201cNo representatives of the M\u0101ori Party will be in attendance. Should any of our membership attend they will be doing so in a personal capacity\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Mana Leader Hone Harawira spoke at the meeting the only leader of either organisations to attend the hui. Hone spoke of a historical alliance in Ngapuhi hundreds of years ago and compared it to modern days. Mr Harawira made this statement “Unity is more important than leadership<\/em>”<\/p>\n

I would like to thank the courage of James Papalii (Mana) and Martin Cooper (Maori) for having the vision to start this dialogue at a grass roots level. Many within both organisations don’t believe it is possible but after today I remain optimistic.<\/p>\n

There are some good people in the Maori party but the harsh reality is both our organisations have a last chance to work together if\u00a0not Labour will \u00a0focus it’s resources on Waiariki electoral seat and secure the last of the Maori electoral seats in 2017.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0spokesperson for the Maori party leadership advised the gathering their\u00a0internal polling in Tamaki is against any Alliance. Therefore we are running an online poll here to see what your opinion is of this Kaupapa.<\/p>\n

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Should the Maori Party and Mana Movement form an Alliance.<\/strong><\/p>

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  • Yes (72%, 144 Votes)<\/small>
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  • No (28%, 56 Votes)<\/small>
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    Total Voters: 200<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n

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