{"id":9882,"date":"2017-02-21T06:41:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=9882"},"modified":"2017-02-21T06:59:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T17:59:38","slug":"mana-and-maori-party-kawenata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=9882","title":{"rendered":"MANA and M\u0101ori Party KAWENATA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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\u201cBeen a long time coming, but it\u2019s what the people have been calling for\u201d said Lisa McNab, MANA President about the agreement that will see MANA and the Maori Party carry a strong mandate to win all seven Maori seats.<\/p>\n

\u201cStanding against one another only lets the party that stole our foreshore and seabed, steal our seats as well. We have to be better than that. Those seats belong to the Maori people, not to anyone else\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTuku came north last year to talk about how we might work together to bring those seats back to the Maori world, and ever since there\u2019s been a real buzz in the Maori electorates\u201d said McNab \u201cFrom the race at Karapiro where MANA MAORI beat Labour easily to the delight of the crowd, to our going on to Ratana together, our taking a common stand at Waitangi, and out on the streets and in the maraes – the support has been awesome\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s arrangement formalises all of that.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt allows MANA to focus on Te Tai Tokerau at the 2017 General Election, a decision we\u2019d actually made at our AGM last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it adds weight to the Maori Party\u2019s decision to stand candidates in the other 6 Maori seats (Tamaki Makaurau, Hauraki-Waikato, Waiariki, Ikaroa-Rawhiti, Te Tai Hauauru, Te Tai Tonga), and we wish them all the best in their endeavours.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth parties have agreed to not stand candidates against one another.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd both parties will be free to develop the policies they think best; to campaign for the party vote; and to criticise one another\u2019s policies without attacking each other\u2019s candidates.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a big job ahead of us\u201d said McNab \u201cThings are even tougher now for our people than they were when Hone left, so we take nothing for granted.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast night\u2019s Colmar-Brunton poll showing MANA registering in the ratings even though we\u2019re not even in parliament yet was a pleasant surprise and public confirmation that MANA is back in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat poll, coupled with the enthusiasm of the people and Hone\u2019s track record, means we\u2019re feeling really positive about 2017\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0MANA Leader Hone Harawira \u201cBeen a long time coming, but it\u2019s what the people have been calling for\u201d said Lisa McNab, MANA President about the agreement that will see MANA and the Maori Party carry a strong mandate to win all seven Maori seats. \u201cStanding against one another only lets the party that stole our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":9883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9882","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\/9882"}],"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=9882"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9887,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9882\/revisions\/9887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}