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Download AudioNew Zealand First leader Winston Peters says the Green Party needs to muscle up and push Darleen Tana out of parliament.
The Waiheke-based list MP quit the party last Saturday while the caucus was discussing a report on whether she had been frank about the level of her involvement in her husband’s e-bike business, which is facing allegations of migrant exploitation.
Mr Peters says his party won’t have her, and the Greens need to write to the speaker and invoke the waka jumping law.
“She has upset the proportionality the Greens got at the last election and her track record has been exposed and here you have a party that is wringing its hands and giving us multivolume word sandwiches every day, trying to talk about their integrity or their kaupapa, whatever it means for the Greens, but they are not being honest with the public,” he says.
Mr Peters says Darleen Tana was suspended on full pay for the 115 days of the investigation, which cost $42,000 of taxpayer money which should have come out of the Greens’ own pocket.
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