Māori electorate seats have a "controversial" history in the same way anything related to the Treaty of Waitangi does. Anything related to the treaty and it's s

Māori electorate seats have a "controversial" history in the same way anything related to the Treaty of Waitangi does. Anything related to the treaty and it's settlements will always bring out the noisy racists. Winston Peters, the leader of the New Zealand First Party is known to say and do anything to ruffle feathers and make the days front page. If you kept researching, you'd see he back pedaled hard on his Māori seat comments and said it should be voted on by a referendum. Then, in the most recent election he "compromised" even further and dropped the idea completely because he knew labour (coalition partner) wouldn't tolerate that shit.