Three Maori MPs are confronted with suspension of protest Haka

A parliamentary committee in Nieuw -Zeeland has proposed that three Māori MPs are suspended from parliament for their Haka protest during a session last year.

Opposition MP Hana -Rowhiti Maipi -Clarke started the traditional group dance after being asked if her party supported a controversial bill – which has since been voted – to redefine the land treaty of the country.

The Haka could have ‘Initimidated’ other legislators, the Commission said, which had returned that was forbidden for 21 days.

The Māori party criticized the recommendations as a “warning shot for all of us to fall into line”.

“When Tangata When moves, colonial forces reach to the maximum fine,” said it in a statement on Wednesday, using a Māori sentence that translates into “People of the Land”.

It also said that this is one of the toughest penalties ever recommended by the Parliament of New Zealand.

Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters, who is Māori, said that the trio were “MPs got out of hand who flood the rules and intimidating others with shameful chopping.”

Their proposed suspensions will be voted on Tuesday.

The Convention Principles Bill, who wanted to redefine the founding treaty of New -Zeeland with the Māori -Volk, voted for 112 votes to 11 Last month – days after a government committee had recommended that it should not continue.

The bill was generally expected to fail, where most major political parties are committed to voting it down.

Members of the right -wing Act Party, who appealed, were the only members of parliament who voted for the second reading on 10 April.

ACT, a small party in the ruling center -right coalition, argued that there is a need to legally define the principles of the Waitangi Convention -the 1840 -pact between the British crown and Māori leaders signed during the colonization of new Zeeland -which the country said was distributed by Ras.

However, critics say that the legislation will distribute the country and lead to the unraveling of much needed support for many Māori.

The proposed legislation led to widespread indignation throughout the country and saw More than 40,000 people who participate in a protest Outside parliament during the first reading in November last year.

Before that, thousands of thousand participated in a nine -day march against the bill in the distant north and ended in Auckland.

Maipi-Clarke, who started the Haka dance, also tore a copy of the bill when it was introduced.