{"id":103486,"date":"2025-10-27T13:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/103486\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T13:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:18:10","slug":"te-pati-maori-mp-mariameno-kapa-kingi-faces-suspension-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/103486\/","title":{"rendered":"Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi faces suspension motion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThey continue to prove the point of dysfunction.\u201d<\/p>\n

She claimed her Te Tai Tokerau electorate committee was not invited to attend Thursday\u2019s meeting and had not been afforded a right of reply.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as I\u2019m concerned, this so-called suspension, it has no mana.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kapa-Kingi and the party leadership have been in conflict for weeks. Last month, she was reshuffled from her position as party whip. <\/p>\n

Her son, Eru Kapa-Kingi, the public face of the Toit\u016b te Tiriti movement, said Toit\u016b was cutting ties with the party and claimed it had a dictatorial leadership style.<\/a><\/p>\n

The party shot back with dramatic allegations saying Mariameno overspent her parliamentary budget and that Eru Kapa-Kingi, who worked for Mariameno Kapa-Kingi in Parliament, had been sacked for assaulting Parliament security guards and hurling racial slurs at them \u2013 claims he described as \u201cdefamatory\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Waatea News reports that Thursday\u2019s hui voted on the following four motions. <\/p>\n

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.That the Te Tai Tokerau MP has seriously breached the Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori Kawa [Constitution]That the Te Tai Tokerau MP be suspended.That 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

Waatea reported that all four were passed, with support of representatives of all electorates but Te Tai Tonga, which is represented by Takuta Ferris who has also been in a dispute with the party over the handling of social media posts targeting non-M\u0101ori, which were widely seen as racist.<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, the party\u2019s newest MP, Orinii Kaipara made a long social media post in support of Mariameno Kapa-Kingi.<\/p>\n

The Herald has contacted Mariameno Kapa-Kingi and representatives from Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori.<\/p>\n

1News also reported a letter from the party\u2019s Te Tai Tonga electorate to other regional representatives. <\/p>\n

It said: \u201cTe Tai Tonga does not recognise or endorse any resolutions passed at that hui.\u201d<\/p>\n

The letter said the electorate would call for \u201can immediate vote of no confidence in the party president and the national executive\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThey continue to prove the point of dysfunction.\u201d She claimed her Te Tai Tokerau electorate committee was not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3225,6119,42,52147,52146,2720,75287,6368,43,4762,46800,766,2249,18834,12066,8690,40,38,41,39,1533],"class_list":["post-103486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-according","tag-faces","tag-headlines","tag-kapakingi","tag-mariameno","tag-mori","tag-motion","tag-mp","tag-news","tag-party","tag-pti","tag-reports","tag-soon","tag-suspended","tag-suspension","tag-te","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103486","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=103486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}