Māori Party

The Māori Party is an indigenous rights-based centre-left political party in New Zealand. Tariana Turia founded the party in 2004 after resigning from the governing centre-left Labour Party, in which she was a minister, over the foreshore and seabed ownership controversy. She and Pita Sharples, a high-profile academic, became the first co-leaders. The Māori Party failed to win any seats in the 2017 election. For the October 2020 New Zealand general election, the party restructured its leadership, with a party president, vice-president, and a singular co-leader consisting of the party's leadership.