A politician broke protocol in New Zealand’s parliament on 5 December by performing a Maori allegiance first, before swearing an oath to King Charles.
Parliamentarians are required to swear an oath to King Charles to be inducted as a member of parliament.
Co-leader of political party Te Pati Maori, Rawiri Waititi, and five other parliamentarians from the party opted to stay in their seats and swear allegiance first to their grandchildren and young people and to the country's founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi, before moving to the front to swear the oath to King Charles.
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