31-01-2024, 02:14 PM
(31-01-2024, 09:51 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: I hope she chooses not to stand for this role. She has enough on her plate, adding leadership would just increase her workload and take away from the power she has. Certainly she is leader material, just not yet. She needs to develop some rat cunning, and that takes time...
RNZ says she's ruled it out for now, as has Julie Anne Genter but Teanu Tuiono says maybe. Hard to say this soon I think.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/507...o-leader-s
"Teanau Tuiono (Ngāpuhi and Ngāi Takoto) moved to the fifth ranking on the party's list after Jan Logie and Eugenie Sage retired in the 2023 elections.
As the party's candidate Palmerston North, he became a list Member of Parliament - the party's first MP with Pasifika whakapapa - in the 2020 general elections. And again was re-elected as a list MP in 2023.
He spoke of how he believed swearing allegiance to the Queen was outdated, and said that it should be to Te Tiriti o Waitangi instead.
In 2022, as Shaw battled to keep his co-leadership role, Tuiono publicly contemplated contesting.
Last year, his Restoring Citizenship Removed By Citizenship (Western Samoa) Act 1982 Bill was introduced in Parliament. The bill would restore the right to New Zealand citizenship for people from Western Samoa who were born between 1924 and 1949 - a right promised to them and found owed them by New Zealand's then highest court.
In December, Tuiono was appointed as the third assistant speaker - the first Green Party MP to become a member on the speaker team.
He recently expressed concern over the lack of Pasifika voices in the government."
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)