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Sunday, July 6, 2025

David Farrar: Meet TPM’s “hero”


Te Pati Maori co-leader Rawiri Waititi shared a video of Ibrahim Traoré on Instagram and declared him his “hero”.

Traoré is the leader of Burkina Faso. Here’s his record:
  1. Supported a coup that forced out of office a centre-left elected president who had won with 59% of the vote
  2. Then took power is his own coup d’état in mid 2022
  3. Is a Marxist
  4. He promised elections by July 2024, but reneged
  5. Wants to make homosexuality a criminal offence
  6. Has deployed Russian troops and the Wagner Group within Burkina Faso
  7. Said he doesn’t want democracy, that “no country has ever developed under democracy” but a wants a popular, progressive revolution,
  8. Said that freedom of expression leads to a society of disorder
  9. Has had 200 citizens summarily executed by security forces
  10. Conscripts human rights activists into the military front line

How long will it take for people to wake up to the fact that Te Pati Maori is an extremist anti-democratic party? Surely the co-leader calling a military dictator, who decries democracy, his personal hero is more than a small clue?

David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders

5 comments:

anonymous said...

Natural bedfellows with similar visions and policies.

Robert Arthur said...

So successfully is the native takeover of NZ proceeding , I suspect many insurgent groups follow developments here more diligently than attention seeking Waititi follows them.

Anonymous said...

any body with an IQ over 80 knows Waititi is an ignorant fool

Chuck Bird said...

His IQ would be less so he would not realize what a fool he is.

Anonymous said...

Karma always gets people like waitits.

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