National Council decision to expel Kapa-Kingi and Ferris<\/a>.<\/p>\nKaipara and Maipi-Clarke have not yet spoken publicly about the decision, but both have posted to social media since it was reported.<\/p>\n
Kaipara, who posted on social media her support of Kapa-Kingi late last month, made a post directed at her electorate T\u0101maki Makaurau.<\/p>\n
“I am still here,” she wrote.<\/p>\n
“Standing by you, for you and with you. The fight will continue, but for now rest is required.<\/p>\n
“I won’t be long, I want us to come together, to meet, to talk. Very soon.”<\/p>\n
Similarly, Maipi-Clarke wrote on social media, “Waikato, Kia mau.”<\/p>\n
“I’ve made the decision for our rohe of Hauraki-Waikato to hold the line.”<\/p>\n
She said she would speak in a week’s time, but for now, “remain calm, and have grace.”<\/p>\n
“No one owns this movement, it belongs to the people.”<\/p>\n
Asked about the meeting at Parliament on Wednesday afternoon, co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer said they were entitled to meet with “whoever they want to meet with”.<\/p>\n
“We have every confidence in what the National Council has decided, and what they do for them is what they do for them,” she said.<\/p>\n
Ngarewa-Packer said the leaders still had support from Kaipara and Maipi-Clarke.<\/p>\n
Rawiri Waititi referenced the social media posts, saying “they have put out that they are holding the line”.<\/p>\n
“And that line is to ensure that this is a one term government and we look forward to seeing them next week.”<\/p>\n
A post shared on Kapa-Kingi’s social media on Wednesday evening said Kohewhata Marae’s chair, Mane Tahere, had written directly to the party’s national executive “expressing disappointment regarding the approach and unconstitutional removal” of the MP.<\/p>\n
Ng\u0101puhi would facilitate a discussion with the executive at the marae on 23 November, the post said, to affirm “Te Tai Tokerau will speak for Te Taitokerau”.<\/p>\n
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