Mana leader Hone Harawira is coming under pressure from his party to support gay marriage, despite previously expressing discomfort about it, saying he was "morally very conservative".
Mana Party leader Hone Harawira says he will spend more time in his Te Tai Tokerau electorate and less time campaigning nationally after a poll at the weekend indicated he could face a close contest at home in next month's election.
Mana Party leader Hone Harawira says it was a mistake that an advertisement that ran in a newspaper during the Te Tai Tokerau by-election did not have the required promoter statement.
It might have been considered an expensive waste of time by Prime Minister John Key, but it is a safe bet the results of the Te Tai Tokerau by-election are being scrutinised by his re-election team. For if nothing else, the win by Hone Harawira to regain his place in Parliament, this time under the banner of his new Mana party, has thrown an alley cat among the kereru.
Mana Party leader Hone Harawira says he will persist in seeking new talks with the Maori Party despite initial resistance from Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples and his own Mana members.
Te Tai Tokerau by-election candidates are today delivering their parting shots in an eventful campaign marked by interparty tensions, a contender's hospitalisation, and a leader's own-goal against their own candidate.
Hone Harawira appears unconcerned he could return to Parliament as an independent MP should his Mana party's registration not be approved in time for the Te Tai Tokerau by-election.
According to a variety of sources, the intention of former Maori Party MP Hone Harawira, now independent Member of Parliament for the Te Tai Tokerau electorate, to resign and force a by-election in which he would stand under the banner of his newly formed Mana Party, is either a farce, a joke or a stunt.