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    From Gordon@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 4 08:47:12 2023
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/131942927/not-in-labour-but-not-a-waka-jumper-meka-whaitiri-to-stay-in-parliament

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    The Speaker has reaffirmed his ruling that Meka Whaitiri can remain an MP, despite the waka jumping law passing in 2018.

    Whaitiri quit as a minister, saying she’d “resigned” from Labour on Wednesday,
    to join Te Pāti Māori.

    The prime minister says he still hasn’t heard from Whaitiri, and her former
    colleagues are questioning her motive for leaving.

    Unquote

    I understood that the people were the only ones who could remove MPs from
    the House, not the speaker of the House.

    Is this more "adjusted" rules?

    The rest of the article gives the impression that this is beyond them. Still
    it is all to often these days.

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  • From Tony@21:1/5 to Gordon on Thu May 4 21:04:43 2023
    Gordon <Gordon@leaf.net.nz> wrote: >https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/131942927/not-in-labour-but-not-a-waka-jumper-meka-whaitiri-to-stay-in-parliament

    Quote


    The Speaker has reaffirmed his ruling that Meka Whaitiri can remain an MP,
    despite the waka jumping law passing in 2018.

    Whaitiri quit as a minister, saying she’d “resigned” from Labour on
    Wednesday,
    to join Te Pāti Māori.

    The prime minister says he still hasn’t heard from Whaitiri, and her
    former
    colleagues are questioning her motive for leaving.

    Unquote

    I understood that the people were the only ones who could remove MPs from
    the House, not the speaker of the House.

    Is this more "adjusted" rules?

    The rest of the article gives the impression that this is beyond them. Still >it is all to often these days.
    The law was as a result of Winston Peters demanding it at the time of the 2017 election. It was and is a bad law.
    Unfortunately it allows the removal of an MP from parliament without asking the elctors what they want.

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  • From Crash@21:1/5 to lizandtony@orcon.net.nz on Fri May 5 14:45:29 2023
    On Thu, 4 May 2023 21:04:43 -0000 (UTC), Tony
    <lizandtony@orcon.net.nz> wrote:

    Gordon <Gordon@leaf.net.nz> wrote: >>https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/131942927/not-in-labour-but-not-a-waka-jumper-meka-whaitiri-to-stay-in-parliament

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    The Speaker has reaffirmed his ruling that Meka Whaitiri can remain an MP,
    despite the waka jumping law passing in 2018.

    Whaitiri quit as a minister, saying she’d “resigned? from Labour on >>Wednesday,
    to join Te P?ti M?ori.

    The prime minister says he still hasn’t heard from Whaitiri, and her >>former
    colleagues are questioning her motive for leaving.

    Unquote

    I understood that the people were the only ones who could remove MPs from >>the House, not the speaker of the House.

    Is this more "adjusted" rules?

    The rest of the article gives the impression that this is beyond them. Still >>it is all to often these days.
    The law was as a result of Winston Peters demanding it at the time of the 2017 >election. It was and is a bad law.
    Unfortunately it allows the removal of an MP from parliament without asking the
    elctors what they want.

    The full story is here:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waka-jumping

    Winston of course envisaged that the leader of the party loosing the waka-jumper MP would require said MP to be ejected from Parliament.
    With Whaiteri this may yet be done once PM Hipkins gets back from the
    UK.


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    Crash McBash

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