Hone Harawira
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Hone Harawira MP |
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Hone Harawira in 2011
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| Leader of the Mana Movement | |
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Assumed office 30 April 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Party established |
| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Te Tai Tokerau |
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In office 2005 – 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Dover Samuels |
| Succeeded by | Kelvin Davis |
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6 January 1955 Whangarei |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
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Mana Movement (2011 – current) Independent (2011) Māori Party (until 2011) |
Hone Pani Tamati Waka Nene Harawira is a New Zealand Māori activist and former parliamentarian. He was elected to the New Zealand Parliament for the Māori electorate of Te Tai Tokerau in the 2005 general election as the Māori Party candidate. His resignation caused the Te Tai Tokerau by-election, held on 25 June 2011, which he won with a majority of 1117. As Leader of the Mana Movement and Member of Parliament for Te Tai Tokerau, he sat on the front bench in the New Zealand House of Representatives until losing the seat in the 2014 general election.
Harawira was born to John Puriri Harawira and Titewhai Harawira in Whangarei on 6 January 1955. He was raised in West Auckland and attended St Stephen's School, a boarding school for Māori boys, and the University of Auckland. He credits people like Muhammad Ali, Syd Jackson, Nelson Mandela, Maori Marsden, his mother and his wife for teaching him "the need for strength, commitment, wisdom and vision". His mother descends from the Ngāti Hau, Ngāti Wai and Ngāti Hine tribes, his father from Te Aupōuri, Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Whātua, and he is part Pākehā. He married Hilda Halkyard from the Ngāti Haua hapū (subtribe) of Te Rarawa.
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