Political Chaos Erupts with Fierce Haka Dance in New Zealand Parliament

U.S. Congressional Democrats would possibly take some ideas from this wild scene in New Zealand’s Parliament, the place minority lawmakers staged a fierce protest … leaving one celebration chief shaking in his boots.

Proper in the course of a essential Parliamentary vote Thursday, members of the opposition celebration interrupted the prim and correct course of by busting out the indigenous Maori battle dance referred to as the Haka.

Opposition celebration Member of Parliament Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke kicked it off when she was referred to as on to vote yay or nay, however as an alternative shouted the opening cry of the Haka whereas ripping up the laws.

A bunch of different MPs joined her, standing up and strolling across the Parliamentary chamber to shout the Haka within the faces of different MPs — and also you gotta see the look on Act Get together chief David Seymour because it was taking place.

The protest was throughout laws — launched by the Act Get together — that might change the interpretation of Nice Britain’s 184-year-old treaty with New Zealand’s Maori tribes, and clearly, the Maori MPs ain’t down with it. Seymour was compelled to droop the session because of the protest.