New Zealand Youngest MP Tears Bill and Does Traditional Dance in Parliament
When Maori mp Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, the youngest member of the Parliament, tore up a copy of the Indigenous Treaty Bill while doing the energetic Haka dance, others joined in, sparking a heated session of the new zealand Parliament on Thursday. MPs convened to vote on the Treaty Principles Bill in new zealand, but a 22-year-old Te Pati Maori mp interrupted the session by tearing up a copy of the bill and doing the traditional Maori dance of haka. The video of the meeting is already going viral.
Speaker Gerry Brownlee temporarily halted the house session when Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke was joined in the haka by other house members and gallerygoers. Tribes were granted extensive rights to keep their lands and safeguard their interests in exchange for handing up power to the British, as outlined in the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, which governs the relationship between the government and Māori. According to the bill, all New Zealanders should be entitled to certain rights.
Who is Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, the youngest mp in New Zealand?
Te Pati Maori is represented in the new zealand Parliament by 22-year-old mp Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke. She is the House's youngest mp to hold office in almost 200 years. Maipi-Clarke first gained notoriety when she was elected in New Zealand's 2023 elections and gave her first speech in Parliament, doing the traditional Haka.