{"id":321875,"date":"2026-03-10T05:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/321875\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T05:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:13:08","slug":"judge-says-mariameno-kapa-kingis-expulsion-from-te-pati-maori-unlawful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/321875\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge says Mariameno Kapa-Kingi\u2019s expulsion from Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori unlawful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mariameno Kapa-Kingi has been reinstated as a MP for Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori after an order in the Wellington High Court, which called her suspension and expulsion &#8220;unlawful&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Kapa-Kingi was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/11\/10\/kapa-kingi-ferris-to-be-expelled-from-te-pati-maori\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">removed as a member<\/a> on November 10 after the party&#8217;s National Council alleged she misused funds and brought the party into disrepute. Tak\u016bta Ferris was also expelled from the party at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Over much of 2025, internal conflict has plagued the party after allegations were made by Kapa-Kingi\u2019s son, former party executive Eru Kapa-Kingi, of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/10\/02\/dictatorship-model-te-pati-maori-slammed-by-hikoi-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;dictatorship model&#8221;<\/a> by the party leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict has at times spilled into public view, drawing criticism on both sides of the argument.<\/p>\n<p>Mariameno Kapa-Kingi took the party to court, challenging her expulsion, shortly before its annual general meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Paul Radich heard the case in the Wellington High Court and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/12\/05\/court-reinstates-mariameno-kapa-kingi-as-te-pati-maori-mp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reinstated her as a member of the party<\/a> in an interim order, finding &#8220;serious questions to be tried&#8221; about the way Kapa-Kingi was expelled.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Radich ruled the resolutions to suspend and expel Kapa-Kingi from the party were &#8220;unlawful under the party&#8217;s constitution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He ordered the decisions be set aside, and she be reinstated.<\/p>\n<p>Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori acknowledges decision<\/p>\n<p>After the ruling of the Court, Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori said it would uphold the court&#8217;s ruling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We acknowledge Mariameno Kapa-Kingi in her role as the elected representative for Te Tai Tokerau,&#8221; a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>It said out of respect for the Court\u2019s process and the mana of all involved, the party &#8220;will not be engaging in ongoing commentary or relitigating this matter through the media&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the Court\u2019s decision now delivered, this matter is concluded for the Party, and we will be moving forward with repatriating of Mariameno Kapa-Kingi back into the P\u0101ti.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mariameno Kapa-Kingi has been reinstated as a MP for Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori after an order in the Wellington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,4432,43,135,8027,40,38,41,39,10872],"class_list":["post-321875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-maori-issues","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-te-pati-maori","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-torangapu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321875","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=321875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}