{"id":9829,"date":"2016-11-27T19:19:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T06:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=9829"},"modified":"2016-11-27T19:19:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T06:19:23","slug":"mana-and-maori-party-agree-to-work-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=9829","title":{"rendered":"MANA and Maori Party agree to work together"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HoneAvatar\"<\/a>\u00a0MANA Leader Hone Harawira<\/p>\n

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\u201cBeen a long time coming\u201d said MANA leader Hone Harawira, of the talks held yesterday between Executive members of both the MANA Movement and the Maori Party \u201cbut given our history, the talks were cordial and the willingness to try to make something happen was genuine from both sides\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no doubt that there are people from both parties who are sceptical about what a working relationship might look like, but if there has been a common thread from the Maori electorates over the past 5 years, it would be \u2018I wish you guys would stop fighting one another, I hope you can get together\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYesterday was the first step in that journey. There\u2019ll be a stumble or two along the way but nothing good ever comes to those who sit and wait anyway \u2013 tama tu tama ora, tama noho tama mate<\/em><\/strong>. So we\u2019re going to try our best to find a way we can work together for the betterment of our people. And if it doesn\u2019t work, it won\u2019t be for want of trying.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot to consider \u2013 we have some common goals, like winning the 7 Maori seats back, but that throws up its own issues like who should stand in what seat, do we share support for the candidates, and how do we deal with the party vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are also some massive policy differences, like the Ture Whenua Maori Bill and the RMA, and there\u2019s also the wee matter of the negative impact that the Maori Party\u2019s relationship with National has on our people, so it ain\u2019t going to be easy \u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of ground to cover and a lot of obstacles to overcome as well. That\u2019s why it\u2019s unlikely there\u2019ll be a joining of the two parties anytime soon\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd while there is a lot of love for the notion of MANA MAORI MOTUHAKE, both sides think moving down that path right now is a bridge too far\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo there\u2019s a lot to do. That\u2019s why we\u2019ve picked a small group to work on the issues and report back to both parties and we\u2019ll take it from there\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMerry Xmas everyone!\u201d<\/p>\n

Hone Harawira<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0MANA Leader Hone Harawira \u201cBeen a long time coming\u201d said MANA leader Hone Harawira, of the talks held yesterday between Executive members of both the MANA Movement and the Maori Party \u201cbut given our history, the talks were cordial and the willingness to try to make something happen was genuine from both sides\u201d \u201cI have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":5249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9829"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9831,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9829\/revisions\/9831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}