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Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson promises to always be a supporter of Ihumātao, but says it is up to the people to decide what a resolution will look like and when it will be.
The co-leader of the Greens, Marama Davidson. Source: Supplied
The Tāmaki Makaurau candidate visited the site on the weekend, before election day next week.
In 2019, the occupants received an eviction notice on the disputed land in Ihumātao in South Auckland, prompting thousands of people to flock there to support the occupation and halting construction plans for the Fletcher Building.
Labor leader Jacinda Ardern promised that no construction will take place in Ihumātao while the government and other parties try to negotiate a solution, but one has not yet been achieved.
Davidson has long expressed the need for a resolution.
However, during her visit, Davidson stopped short of saying that she was disappointed that a resolution has yet to be enforced.
“I can’t feel a sense of disappointment because I don’t see the disappointment in them [the people at Ihumātao]. What I do know is that they managed to stop the development with which they did not agree and in the meantime they are doing it, “he said.
He said that there had to be a peaceful resolution, but that the people there were not waiting for the government.
“They’re growing the seedlings, they want to establish self-sufficiency, water storage, solar panels. They just go ahead and do these things and they’re at the table discussing that resolution and what it would be like, so I feel very positive about it,” she said. .
Davidson said that he has maintained a connection to what is happening on the site, so he wanted to visit it.
“I feel like I need to be informed, so that when I return to government I can, as always, be the most informed policy on the ground in this situation,” she said.
When asked if he would continue to advocate for the people there, he replied “I always have and always will be.”
