By Charlotte Graham-Mclay WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) \u2014 New Zealand legislators voted Thursday to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a M\u0101ori haka to protest a proposed law. Hana-R\u0101whiti Maipi-Clarke received a seven-day ban and the leaders of her political party, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi, were barred for 21 days. Three days had been the longest ban for a lawmaker from New Zealand\u2019s Parliament before. The lawmakers from Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori, the M\u0101ori Party, performed the haka, a chanting dance of challenge, in November to oppose a widely unpopular bill, now defeated, that they said would reverse Indigenous rights. The protest drew global headlines and provoked months of fraught debate among lawmakers about what the consequences for the lawmakers’ actions should be and the place… <\/p>\n
By Charlotte Graham-Mclay WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) \u2014 New Zealand legislators voted Thursday to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a M\u0101ori haka to protest a proposed law. Hana-R\u0101whiti Maipi-Clarke received a seven-day ban and the leaders of her political party, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi, were barred for 21 days. Three days had been the longest ban for a lawmaker from New Zealand\u2019s Parliament before. The lawmakers from Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori, the M\u0101ori Party, performed the haka, a chanting dance of challenge, in November to oppose a widely unpopular bill, now defeated, that they said would reverse Indigenous rights. The protest drew global headlines and provoked months of fraught debate among lawmakers about what the consequences for the lawmakers’ actions should be and the place... <\/p>\n