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New Zealand politicians broke out in song Thursday after having overthrew a sustained right proposal which, according to adversaries, would erode indigenous rights.
Tens of thousands of people – mainly from the Maori community – had already come down to the streets to oppose the bill, which sought to redefine the terms of a treaty that the British colonialists signed with the Aboriginal group over 180 years ago.
The proposal made the front page of the world newspapers when a video has become viral of the youngest legislator of the nation tearing the bill in two and leading a haka – a maori ceremonial dance – in parliament.
While the bill was elected by 112 votes to 11 Thursday, after an occasionally stormy session, politicians on both sides of the room sang a song Maori, or Waiata, to celebrate, marking the end of a bitter public debate.
“This bill was not IT, this bill was absolutely annihilated,” said Hana-Rāwihti Maipi-Clarke, the deputy who led the parliamentarian Haka during the previous debate.
The bill on the principles of the treaty sought to define the principles of the Waitangi Treaty – an agreement signed between the British crown and a group of Aboriginal Maori leaders in the 1840s, which offered New Zealand as a British colony and reserved maori land and customary rights.
His supporter, David Seymour, argued that Parliament should define the principles of the treaty because the definitions currently existed only in a series of court decisions taken during the decades – rather than in an act of parliament.
His ACT party – A minority party in the right -wing coalition of the right – believes that the current law has led to a company where the Maori have received different rights and privileges in New Zealand.
The opponents said that the courts had already resolved the principles of the treaty and that the list of list that Seymour highlighted the Aboriginal rights and would harm social cohesion.
Speaking Thursday in Parliament, Labor MP Willie Jackson described the bill “the right -wing obscenity, disguised as equality”.
The chief of plowing, Chris Hipkins, the former Prime Minister, said that the debate would be a “task on the country” and described the change of law proposed a “small dirty bill, born of a small dirty agreement”.
The bill was authorized to go to the stadium of the restricted committee because the ACT party had made it a condition of the coalition agreement which contributed to the power to power in the power of Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.
But nationals and the other part of the coalition in New Zealand never agreed to support the bill beyond the restricted committee stage. Luxon had tried to distant herself publicly and his party.
Despite the overwhelming opposition, Seymour has sworn to “never give up” his efforts to change the law.
“The idea that your breed is important is a version of a more important problem, that is part of this greater idea that our lives are determined by things out of our control,” he said in Parliament on Thursday.
The Minister of Relations with Māori, Tama Potaka, national deputy, praised Thursday as “cremation day” for the bill. “It’s dead, let’s go and (today) he will be buried,” he told the Affilié de CNN on Thursday.
Prime Minister Luxon was not present in Parliament, because the bill was elected, attracting the anger of those behind the public campaign against her.
“If you are the leader of this country and you have a bill in Parliament which has made 300,000 submissions on this subject, which broke each record by a country country, you would think that the head of our country would like to be in Parliament for an opportunity that Big,” told Rnz Tania.
