Metiria Turei
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Metiria Turei MP |
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| 2nd Female co-leader of the Green Party | |
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Assumed office 30 May 2009 Co-leader with James Shaw |
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| Preceded by | Jeanette Fitzsimons |
| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Green Party List |
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Assumed office 27 July 2002 |
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| Born |
13 February 1970 Palmerston North, New Zealand |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
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Green Party (2002–present) Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party (1996) McGillicuddy Serious Party (1993) |
| Spouse(s) | Warwick Stanton |
Metiria Leanne Agnes Stanton Turei (born 1970) is a New Zealand member of Parliament and the female co-leader of the Green Party alongside James Shaw.
As of 2016[update] she is the Green Party spokesperson on Inequality, Justice, and Building and Housing.
Turei failed her high school examinations and in 1987 she worked her first job as a kitchen-hand at the Hard Rock Café in Palmerston North working the late shift Between 1989–1991, Turei was the Tumuaki o Te Iwi Maori Rawakore o Aotearoa and involved with Te Roopu Rawakore o Aotearoa. Turei was a founding member of the Random Trollops performance art troupe.
She was a candidate for the McGillicuddy Serious Party in the 1993 election and for the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party in the 1996 election.
In the 2002 general election, the Green Party received 7.00% of the vote, which allowed them 9 seats in Parliament. Turei, standing in Tāmaki Makaurau, was ranked 8th on the Green Party's party list, and so entered Parliament as a list MP. When she was elected, Turei left her job as a corporate lawyer for Simpson Grierson to become a Member of Parliament.
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