MPs said to stop the complaint against the use of Maori’s name

The Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Parliament of New Zealand says he will not consider any additional complaints of legislators regarding the use of the name of the country in the country.

“Aotearoa is regularly used as the name of New Zealand,” said Jerry Brownley speaker in a parliament on Tuesday.

His comments come after Brownley’s Deputy Prime Minister Piers asked Brownley to ban the use of Aotearoa, and offered a referendum to use him in the parliament.

While New Zealand is the country’s legal name and can only be changed by law, Aotearoa, which means “the land of a long white cloud”, has long been used when referring to New Zealand in Maori.

“This (Aotearoa) appears on our passports and it appears in our currency,” Brownley said on Tuesday. The name is also used in the Maori of the National Anthem of New Zealand, which is usually heard before the English version.

“If other members do not like certain words, they do not need to use them. But this is not a matter of order, and I do not expect him to raise additional points of order,” he added.

MPs are allowed to use any of the three official languages ​​of the country – English, Maari and the language of New Zealand gestures – when they perform in parliament.

The objection of Peters, who is Maori, emerged last month when the green deputy Ricardo Meendez march used it during the parliamentary session.

“Why did the one who applied for this country come to this country in 2006 allowed the question of this parliament that changes the name of this country without referendum and sanctions of New Zealand?” Peters asked.

The Menendess march is originally from Mexico, but is a citizen of New Zealand, like all deputies.

Shane Jones, another Minister of Government, who is a member of the first batch of New Zealand, and Maori, questioned “the expediency of recent immigrants telling Maori how our country should be?”

At the time, Brownley urged legislators to use the Name of Aotaroa New Zealand instead of avoiding confusion, but stated that this was not a requirement.

Not all Maori have the same connection with the title of Aotearoa, which was originally used to describe only the Northern Island of New Zealand. However, it is often used by non -indigenous residents.

On Tuesday, Winston Peters said he disagreed with Brownley’s decree, Radio New Zealand (RNZ) reports.

He added that he had only problems using Aotearoa in parliament, not in Maor as a whole, and that if he had been addressed in the future, using the name, he would not answer.

In recent decades, Maori’s use has increased significantly in New Zealand, after propaganda from indigenous leaders.

The motion was launched in 2022 by the Maori Party, an official political party to officially change the country’s name to Aotearoa, which received more than 70,000 signatures.

“New Zealand is a Dutch name and has no connection with this if (Earth). How many people in Aotearoa can even point to the” old “Zealand on the map?” At the time, co -chairman of the Maori Ravi Voitti party stated.

As the current administration entered into power in 2023, it demanded that the government agencies prefer their English names and report, above all, in English if they were not related to Maori.

Another coalition members, the Act Party, also seeks to revise the conditions of the founder of New Zealand, the Wautangi Treaty, which was, which was He met with a cruel opposition.