Waititi trade barbs in heated AM clash about co-governance
ACT leader David Seymour and Te Pāti Māori's Rawiri Waititi have clashed in a tense debate about co-governance during what was supposed to be an interview about Labour's policy dump.
It comes after Prime Minister Chris Hipkins on Wednesday put several unpopular policies on the burn pile including the RNZ-TVNZ merger, hate speech reforms and the income insurance scheme.
The Government is also considering changes to the controversial Three Waters reforms.
But the policy dump was met with more questions from Opposition parties. Seymour said it showed how "hare-brained" the ideas were in the first place while the Green Party called for "bolder solutions".
Māori Party co-leader Waititi also called for more forward-thinking.
"Chris Hipkins is now the driver of this Labour vehicle and he's going very, very fast in reverse," Waititi told AM on Thursday. "He has succumbed to the pressure from the likes of National and ACT who have emboldened that type of narrative out there in the public - social media - around words like 'co-governance'... policies around Three Waters and all those types of things.
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