{"id":45015,"date":"2022-05-31T10:47:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T01:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/31\/nz-maori-party-rules-out-right-wing-coalition-after-next-election"},"modified":"2022-05-31T10:47:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T01:47:38","slug":"nz-maori-party-rules-out-right-wing-coalition-after-next-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45015","title":{"rendered":"NZ M\u0101ori party rules out right-wing coalition after next election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Co-leader Rawiri Waititi, whose party is expected to become kingmakers, accuses Act of \u2018emboldening racism across the country\u2019 through its rhetoric<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s M\u0101ori party, Te Pati M\u0101ori, which could hold the balance of power at the next election, has ruled out forming a coalition with Act and National, if the rightwing Act party stays its current policy course.<\/p>\n<p>The comments came as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/04\/jacinda-ardern-acknowledges-difficult-period-as-labour-party-slums-again-in-polls\">series of polls placed Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori as \u201ckingmakers\u201d<\/a> in the upcoming New Zealand election. Asked by the Guardian whether the party would consider a National-Act coalition, based on current policies and rhetoric, co-leader Rawiri Waititi said: \u201cIt\u2019s a no. Absolutely. It\u2019s a hard no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/31\/nz-maori-party-rules-out-right-wing-coalition-after-next-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-leader Rawiri Waititi, whose party is expected to become kingmakers, accuses Act of \u2018emboldening racism across the country\u2019 through its rhetoricNew Zealand\u2019s M\u0101ori party, Te Pati M\u0101ori, which could hold the balance of power at the next election, has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,897,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45016,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45015\/revisions\/45016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}