{"id":74722,"date":"2025-10-14T14:18:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/14\/new-zealand-guaranteed-maori-council-seats-slashed-more-than-half"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:18:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:18:43","slug":"guaranteed-maori-seats-on-new-zealand-councils-to-be-slashed-by-more-than-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74722","title":{"rendered":"Guaranteed M\u0101ori seats on New Zealand councils to be slashed by more than half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Controversial law change that forced councils to put the fate of M\u0101ori wards to a public vote saw 25 vote to disestablish the guaranteed seats<\/p>\n<p>The number of guaranteed seats for M\u0101ori representatives on New Zealand councils will be slashed by more than half, following a controversial law change that forced local governments to put the fate of hard-won M\u0101ori seats to a public vote.<\/p>\n<p>M\u0101ori wards, which may have one or more councillors depending on local population numbers, were established in 2001 to give Indigenous voters the option to vote for a guaranteed M\u0101ori representative in local and regional authorities. Initially, councils could only establish a M\u0101ori ward by first putting it to a public vote in their area. Communities often spent years generating local support and pushing their councils to create M\u0101ori wards.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/14\/new-zealand-guaranteed-maori-council-seats-slashed-more-than-half\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controversial law change that forced councils to put the fate of M\u0101ori wards to a public vote saw 25 vote to disestablish the guaranteed seatsThe number of guaranteed seats for M\u0101ori representatives on New Zealand councils will be slashed by more than &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2340,"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":[41,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","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\/74722","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\/2340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74724,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74722\/revisions\/74724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}