Talk:Rawiri Waititi

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Did you know... that 42 new MPs were elected to the 53rd New Zealand Parliament: 23 for Labour, including Arena Williams, Ibrahim Omer, Helen White, Neru Leavasa, Ingrid Leary, Rachel Brooking, Anna Lorck, Tracey McLellan, and Shanan Halbert (all pictured); 5 for National, including Joseph Mooney, Simon Watts, and Penny Simmonds; 9 for ACT, including Toni Severin, Simon Court, Brooke van Velden, and Chris Baillie; 3 for the Greens, including Ricardo Menéndez March and Teanau Tuiono; and 2 for Māori, including Rawiri Waititi?

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'male co-leader'?

Hey, Schwede66, I don't know the significance of 'male co-leader' and we don't seem to have an article on or even a redirect to link to. Is there something we could link to that would allow readers to figure out what that is? Sorry for the Yankee ignorance! —valereee (talk) 12:54, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Valereee: Many parties in New Zealand split their leadership across two co-leaders and one of them is female and the other male. It truly hadn't occurred to me that this needs spelling out. But maybe it does. I have asked fellow Kiwi editors what they think. Schwede 66 18:48, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Valereee: The Māori Party's constitution states (at 7.3) that: "The co-leaders will be selected from the sitting Members of Parliament and one will be tāne [male] and one will be wahine [female]. In the event that the co-leadership criteria cannot be met, the National Council may appoint a co-leader who sits outside of Parliament." Under this rule, If Waititi is the only Māori Party Member of Parliament, then he must be a co-leader, and then the other co-leader must be female. I'll add a little more into the article to explain this. HenryCrun15 (talk) 19:48, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you both. I'm impressed, also embarrassed that I didn't know this. :) It may not need spelling out except for...well, I won't insult other people in the US. Maybe it only needed spelling out for me lol —valereee (talk) 20:07, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Do not worry, not everyone is familiar with the organisation constitutions of small parties in small countries :D HenryCrun15 (talk) 20:43, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Valereee: Your question is certainly a worthwhile one to raise, as others have said. The most prominent example of this leadership model in New Zealand is our Green Party, which has used it since 1995. Some rapid searching has shown me that a number of European political parties currently have male and female co-leaders, but they don't actually have formal rules stating that one must be female and one must be male, or indeed that they must have two at all. The Scottish Greens currently require co-leaders, of whom one must be female. The Green Party of England and Wales has had co-leaders since 2016, because candidates chose to run for the leadership together under a job-share model. According to the Procedure section of that article, they can have a leader and two deputies, or two co-leaders and one deputy, which is not something I've ever heard of in New Zealand. There's no mention of sex/gender requirements though. I also know co-leadership is popular in German politics at the moment - The Social Democrats, the Greens, The Left and the AfD all have co-leaders currently, but their English Wikipedia coverage doesn't specify if there are any particular rules around this. It would be interesting to know if there's been any detailed media coverage or academic study of co-leadership in political parties, as that could form the basis of an article. Hope I haven't rambled on too much! MW691 (talk) 04:23, 27 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If it's that common, we should indeed have an article on it that can explain the basic concept and then list the instances by country. Schwede 66 05:41, 27 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

can somebody add his deleted tweet

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300244315/mori-party-coleader-rawiri-waititi-apologises-after-deleting-tweet-on-archaic-caucasians

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/03/m-ori-party-mp-rawiri-waititi-s-tweet-about-p-keh-being-archaic-species-was-made-by-someone-else.html

heres some sources, thank you

122.58.21.213 (talk) 12:17, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Maoriparty.org

On the bottom of his article, (down from profession)his website is just a gold investing website (as of the 8th of September of 2023) https://maoriparty.org/rawiri_waititi Speed-Stacker-NZ (talk) 10:07, 8 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nice find Speed-Stacker-NZ. I have replaced it with an archive link. Happy editing <3 Jeraxmoira (talk) 12:58, 8 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Speed-Stacker-NZ (talk) 21:16, 8 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]