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Labour list MP Tamati Coffey will retire from politics at the upcoming election.
Mr Coffey entered parliament in 2017 by winning back Waiariki for Labour, but lost the seat to the Maori Party’s Rawiri Waititi three years later.
He says after the birth of his second child, he wants to put his energy into his two kids, Tūtānekai and Taitimu.
Mr Coffey says he’s proud to have made a contribution to reforming the law on surrogacy that affects so many families and their whakapapa aspirations, and he hopes it will pass this year.
He says Labour has delivered for Waiariki, including record investment in Māori and locally-led housing solutions, 260 more state houses in Rororua alone and 300 more on the way,and papakainga from Rotorua to the Western Bay.
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