This is the seat he lost by just 42 votes in 2023 in a contest over which serious questions still have not been properly answered.
Act, National, New Zealand First and the Greens aren’t standing candidates.
Vision New Zealand leader Hannah Tamaki says she will stand but is unlikely to trouble either of the other candidates.
Those enrolled will have a choice to vote for Henare, as the right candidate, even though he is from the left.
That is right not in the political sense but as the opposite of wrong.
He will be right in that sense because for all its faults, his party does generally accept and uphold the rules and responsibilities of parliament.
Henare’s main contest will be from Oriini Kaipara whose party, Te Pāti Māori, does not.
Its MPs have no respect for parliament and behave as activists promoting a separatist agenda rather than parliamentarians.
The only good thing about them is that they are a very strong argument for the abolition of the Māori seats.
Ele Ludemann is a North Otago farmer and journalist, who blogs HERE - where this article was sourced.
Those enrolled will have a choice to vote for Henare, as the right candidate, even though he is from the left.
That is right not in the political sense but as the opposite of wrong.
He will be right in that sense because for all its faults, his party does generally accept and uphold the rules and responsibilities of parliament.
Henare’s main contest will be from Oriini Kaipara whose party, Te Pāti Māori, does not.
Its MPs have no respect for parliament and behave as activists promoting a separatist agenda rather than parliamentarians.
The only good thing about them is that they are a very strong argument for the abolition of the Māori seats.
Ele Ludemann is a North Otago farmer and journalist, who blogs HERE - where this article was sourced.
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