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to remove the mechanism where 5% of local voters can by petition, call a local referendum to overturn a council's decision to establish MÄori wards. Mahuta commented that "Polls have proven to be an almost insurmountable barrier to councils trying to improve the democratic representation of MÄori
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to overturn the council's decision to establish a MÄori ward had reached the necessary threshold of 5% of eligible local voters. Between 2002â2021, 24 different councils attempted to establish MÄori wards, however, only 2 of the 24 councils were ever successful.
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said that he found it personally insulting as a MÄori man because "it says I'm not good enough because of my whakapapa, because of the colour of my skin ... this bill to me says I'm not good enough to win a vote of a non-MÄori, well I am good enough".
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