May 15, 2023
Te Pāti Māori won’t be phoning Luxon if Kingmaker
Don’t wait by the phone on election night if the Māori Party is in the kingmaker position.
That’s the advice from co-leader Rawiri Waititi to National’s Chris Luxon over his statement ruling out working with the Māori party.
He says Mr Luxon’s explanation National believes in one person, one vote shows he needs a civics lesson, because under MMP everyone had two votes, and in local body elections people can vote in multiple places if they are ratepayers.
“It’s okay for rich pākeha to have more than one vote but he says for Māori, you have one vote. That’s dog-whistling politics and I tell you what Christopher Luxon, I will not be ringing you on October 15 when Te Pāti Māori is in a position to decide who the Government is,” Mr Waititi says.