ACT Party Leader knocks back ‘race-fanaticism’ from Māori Party

NZ ACT Party Leader David Seymour has knocked back criticism from the Māori Party after they took issue with a new bill they claim will be “exterminating any ounce of culture, identity and any sense of their Māori selves”. “Just because they are called the Māori Party, they don’t speak for Māori,” Mr Seymour told Sky News NZ Correspondent Jack Nyhof. “In fact, according to the polls, they speak for perhaps one in six Māori who actually voted for them. “The vast majority of New Zealanders, including the vast majority of Māori, want nothing to do with what I describe as race-fanaticism.”