RNZ<\/a><\/p>\nThe list announcement for the 2026 General Election came on Sunday morning, with only Lance Norman, General Secretary of Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori, selected “unanimously” as the additional list candidate.<\/p>\n
The party said it was “reaffirming its candidate-vote strategy” by selecting just one list candidate outside its candidates for the seven M\u0101ori electorate.<\/p>\n
“This list proves we are putting our money where our mouth is,” Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori Co-Leader Rawiri Waititi said.<\/p>\n
“We made a deliberate decision to put collective M\u0101ori representation ahead of building a long party list.”<\/p>\n
“We said this election is bigger than any one party. Our list reflects that commitment,” Co-Leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer said.<\/p>\n
She asked supporters to cast their candidate vote for Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori and party vote for Green or Labour.<\/p>\n
“We are backing our seven candidates to win the M\u0101ori electorates and standing by the strategy we announced to our people.”<\/p>\n
In August, the party urged supporters to give their candidate vote to TPM, and their party vote to the left bloc.<\/p>\n
At the time, Waititi suggested the party’s strategy could see up to 13 M\u0101ori MPs get into power.<\/p>\n
The strategy could lead to the creation of an overhang, where there are more seats in Parliament.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, Labour’s M\u0101ori campaign chair Willie Jackson criticised the approach, saying it threatened a backlash against the M\u0101ori seats that could lead to their abolition “when you start working the system like that”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori says it’s putting its “money where its mouth is” by announcing a “one-person” party list.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,135,8027,40,38,41,39,270122],"class_list":["post-620354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-te-pati-maori","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-vote-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620354","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=620354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}