{"id":103143,"date":"2025-10-27T08:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/103143\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T08:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:25:12","slug":"te-pati-maori-mp-faces-suspension-waatea-news-maori-radio-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/103143\/","title":{"rendered":"Te Pati M\u0101ori MP faces suspension \u2013 Waatea News: M\u0101ori Radio Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/logo-4.png\" alt=\"Watermark\" class=\"watermark\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"850\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mntBLOCKSTORAGEhomemasternews_importersrcMariameno-Kapa-Kingi-0802.jpg_1_Pub.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Role Funding: <\/p>\n<p>For the last several months, Te Pati M\u0101ori have gone from large highs to deep lows. The passing of much-loved MP, Tarsh Kemp, caused a by-election that saw Oriini Kaipara elected. An AGM was to be held but this was delayed due to the passing of Kemp and the ensuing by-election. In the aftermath, allegations surfaced about the behaviour of MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi\u2019s son, Eru, in respect of her office budget and the accusations of an altercation between Mr Kapa-Kingi and a Parliamentary Security staff member \u2013 Mariameno Kapa-Kingi is the MP for the seat of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Te_Tai_Tokerau\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Te Tai Tokerau<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now Waatea can report that at a TE P\u0100TI M\u0100ORI NATIONAL COUNCIL HUI held last Thursday four resolutions were put:<\/p>\n<p>That the Te Tai Tokerau Electorate Executive be reset by way of a Special General Meeting, on the basis that the Electorate Executive is no longer functioning in accordance with Party requirements and the Kawa.<br \/>\nThat the Te Tai Tokerau MP has seriously breached the Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori Kawa (Constitution).<br \/>\nThat the Te Tai Tokerau MP be suspended.<br \/>\nThat the National Executive develop and recommend the most appropriate process to implement the suspension of the Te Tai Tokerau MP and report back to the National Council.<\/p>\n<p>Waatea understands that all four resolutions were passed by the Members present \u00a0(Agreed: T\u0101maki Makaurau, Hauraki-Waikato, Waiariki, Ikaroa-R\u0101whiti, Te Tai Hau\u0101uru) with one Abstenation (Te Tai Tonga).<\/p>\n<p>Comment has been sought from the MP concerned and Te Pati Maori<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Role Funding: For the last several months, Te Pati M\u0101ori have gone from large highs to deep lows.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-103143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}