{"id":60349,"date":"2023-12-05T14:49:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T05:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/05\/new-zealand-parliament-maori-tribute-king-charles-translation-issue-te-pati-maori-skin-rash"},"modified":"2023-12-05T14:49:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T05:49:04","slug":"charles-or-skin-rash-maori-mps-oath-of-allegiance-to-king-sparks-translation-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60349","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Charles\u2019 or \u2018skin rash\u2019? M\u0101ori MPs\u2019 oath of allegiance to king sparks translation debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the opening of parliament, lawmakers for New Zealand\u2019s M\u0101ori party used a word for Charles that can also be used to describe skin conditions<\/p>\n<p>M\u0101ori party MPs have departed from the traditional oath of allegiance to King Charles III at the opening of New Zealand\u2019s 54th parliament, sparking a debate about whether the M\u0101ori word they used to describe him meant \u201cCharles\u201d or \u201cskin rash\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the formalities to open parliament, MPs must swear allegiance to New Zealand\u2019s head of state, something Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori, a M\u0101ori political party, has long protested against. MPs can say the oath in either English or Te reo M\u0101ori.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/05\/new-zealand-parliament-maori-tribute-king-charles-translation-issue-te-pati-maori-skin-rash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the opening of parliament, lawmakers for New Zealand\u2019s M\u0101ori party used a word for Charles that can also be used to describe skin conditionsM\u0101ori party MPs have departed from the traditional oath of allegiance to King Charles III at the opening of N&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3833,"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":[41,2759,897,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-king-charles-iii","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\/60349","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\/3833"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60350,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60349\/revisions\/60350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}