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Helmut Modlik: Te Rūnanga O Toa Rangatira Chief Executive on fractures within Te Pati Māori · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: To Party Mardi is imploding. It'll be no surprise to
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  Speaker 1: you given what's happened over the last month.
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  Speaker 2: This decision was not taken lightly. Many hope the end
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  Speaker 2: would be reconciliation. It could not be achieved. We acknowledge
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  Speaker 2: the mummy our people have built, and we think our
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  Speaker 2: National Council for upholding our color and the best interest
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  Speaker 2: of our movement throughout.
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  Speaker 1: Helmet Modlick is well by the way Ferris and Kapa
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  Speaker 1: King now become independents and they say that they will
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  Speaker 1: fight this. We'll see where that goes. Helmet Modlik is
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  Speaker 1: nate toi ewchief executive with me this morning. Good morning Mardena,
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  Speaker 1: good to have you on the show. What is your
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously it's not a great look for to
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  Speaker 1: Party Mahdi, But what happens with the Maldi electric vote
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  Speaker 1: now do you think?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, it will depend on what plays out over
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  Speaker 3: the next probably the next six months or so. It's
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  Speaker 3: to state how bitterly disappointing it is for the married
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  Speaker 3: community to see the dynamic that's played out so publicly
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  Speaker 3: and resulting in this fractious outcome. Yeah, hard to overstate it.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what exactly. You know, some of that
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  Speaker 1: Ferris and couple King have actually done.
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  Speaker 3: Well. I think it's fair to say that the actions
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  Speaker 3: and conversations that have gone on initially behind the scenes
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  Speaker 3: and then more recently in all two public ways, online
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  Speaker 3: as well as over the media, has really been a
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  Speaker 3: combination of small and not so small actions that have
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  Speaker 3: just irritated each got thought about it. It seems to
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  Speaker 3: be pretty orthodox sort of personality power politics type actions
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  Speaker 3: are common. Well, that's always you're going to have a
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  Speaker 3: serious ego if you're going to be in politics, and
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  Speaker 3: it's it seems to parallel pretty similarly the sorts of
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  Speaker 3: things we should play out in other parties at this
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  Speaker 3: At this stage though, in the electoral cycle and give
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  Speaker 3: and the strategic issues and play for to party MALDI
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  Speaker 3: and the progressive side of the political spectrum, it's it's
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  Speaker 3: serious helmet.
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  Speaker 1: Does Labor win out of this? You know, do we
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  Speaker 1: get Maori voters on the Maori role going back to Labor.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's clearly got to be one of strategic options.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I say it depends on what plays out
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  Speaker 3: over the sixty nine months. The you know, the there's
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  Speaker 3: no point winning a battle if you lose the war,
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  Speaker 3: and the war at this point in time is seen
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  Speaker 3: the Coalition and it's egregious attacks on the Murray community
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  Speaker 3: and over the last couple of years seeing them removed
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  Speaker 3: from office. That's the war and this this battle that's
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  Speaker 3: playing out into party Mali has has been decidedly unhelpful
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  Speaker 3: and winning that battle, that war.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, Helmet model. I appreciate your time this morning, Natty
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