New Zealand Parliament votes for record suspensions of 3 lawmakers who performed Māori haka

New Zealand legislators has voted Thursday to enact grounds suspensions from Parliament for 3 lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protestation a projected law

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- New Zealand legislators voted Thursday to enact grounds suspensions from Parliament for 3 lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protestation a projected law.

Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke received a seven-day prohibition and her colleagues from Te Pāti Māori, the Māori Party, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi, are barred for 21 days.

Three days had been the longest prohibition from New Zealand’s Parliament before.

They performed the haka past November to reason a measure they said would reverse Indigenous rights. The protestation provoked months of quality among lawmakers astir what the consequences should be. Thursday’s ballot followed hours of fraught statement successful Parliament.

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