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Mana leader Hone Harawira says he's looking for a strategic relationship with the Maori Party rather than a merger.
Mr Harawira met yesterday with new Maori Party president Tukoroirangi Morgan, and describes it as a positive catch-up with a former schoolmate with no demands and no expectations.
He told Radio Waatea host Dale Husband that Mana president Lisa McNabb will sit down with Mr Morgan in the next couple of weeks so see how the discussions can be advanced.
"They may lead nowhere, because there are serious political differences between Mana and the Maori Party, but we are Maori and we have an obligation to do the best we can for the people we serve and they just happen to be the same people so if we can do that without requiring one to subsume itself to the other, then I think we might be off to a positive start," he says.
At the last election Kelvin Davis won Te Tai Tokerau from Hone Harawira by a 743 vote majority, with the Maori Party's Te Hira Paenga taking 2579 votes.
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