{"id":165726,"date":"2025-12-03T08:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/165726\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T08:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:33:08","slug":"mariameno-kapa-kingi-files-court-action-against-party-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/165726\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariameno Kapa-Kingi files court action against party president"},"content":{"rendered":"

Expelled MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi has filed for an interim injunction, court records show, against Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori President John Tamihere.<\/p>\n

The urgent hearing is set to take place tomorrow morning at Wellington’s High Court.<\/p>\n

Kapa-Kingi has previously said that she would file court action<\/a> to challenge her expulsion from the party.<\/p>\n

She held a hui in Te Tai Tokerau a week ago, which was called by Ng\u0101puhi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The hui was not attended by Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori’s leadership, despite them being requested to attend.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow’s hearing comes days before the party was due to hold its annual general meeting in Rotorua on Sunday.<\/p>\n

At the AGM, the party’s council was planning decide whether or not to formalise the expulsions of Mariameno Kapa-Kingi and T\u0101kuta Ferris.<\/p>\n

Weeks-long infighting among the party led to the expulsion of MPs Kapa-Kingi and Takuta Ferris, and fired a petition for party president to resign as well as attempts by iwi leaders to intervene.<\/p>\n

Claims of toxicity and a “dictatorship” style leadership within the party first emerged publicly from the MP’s son, Eru Kapa-Kingi, as the group he helped lead \u2014 Toitu Te Tiriti \u2014 emphasised it stood independent from Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori.<\/p>\n

When asked if she agreed with her son’s statements, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi said: “It’s time for change, is what I see. Change is good for us. I think, particularly now.”<\/p>\n

1News has tried to contact Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori and Kapa-Kingi for a response, but have yet to receive replies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Expelled MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi has filed for an interim injunction, court records show, against Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori President…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4432,111,43,139,69,135,8027],"class_list":{"0":"post-165726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-maori-issues","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-te-pati-maori"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165726","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=165726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}