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WATCH: Woman New Zealand parliamentarian dances to record protest
A female member of the New Zealand parliament recorded her protest by performing a traditional dance when a bill was opposed by some members.
According to an international news agency report, New Zealand’s youngest Member of Parliament, Hana Ruahiti Maipi Clark, can be seen in the video emotionally doing a traditional dance while opposing a bill presented in parliament.
The youngest member of parliament tore the bill and started the traditional dance Maori Haka, after which other members of the assembly and people sitting in the gallery got up to support her and started dancing.
According to foreign media, a bill was presented in the New Zealand Assembly regarding the reinterpretation of the 1840 treaty regarding the rights of the country’s ancient inhabitants, the Maori (Polynesian race), and Maipi Clarke was strongly against it.
22-year-old Maipi Clark is also related to the Maori, the ancient inhabitants of New Zealand, who were the original (ancient) inhabitants of the country thousands of years before the European settlers arrived in New Zealand.