New Zealand’s Parliament voted on June 5 to hand historically tough suspensions to the three dancing, chanting lawmakers who made a scene last year to protest a bill that’d been under consideration.
The three lawmakers, members of the indigenous Māori people, performed a Haka dance last November to protest a bill that they alleged would undermine the rights of their people.
New Zealand’s parliament agreed on historically lengthy suspensions for three Indigenous lawmakers who last year performed a haka, a traditional Maori dance, disrupting the reading of a controversial bill. pic.twitter.com/l3SF1p8BbO
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In defending the suspensions, which ranged from seven days to three weeks, government minister Nicole McKee stressed that they weren’t targeting the Māori lawmakers over their
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