Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Green Party List
In office 27 July 2002 – 23 September 2017
Personal details
Born
(1970-02-13) 13 February 1970 (age 54) Palmerston North, New Zealand
Political party
Green Party (2002–present) Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party (1996) McGillicuddy Serious Party (1993, 1999)
Spouse
Warwick Stanton
Children
Piupiu Turei (daughter)[1]
Alma mater
University of Auckland[2]
Occupation
Commercial lawyer[3]
Metiria Leanne Agnes Stanton Turei (born 1970) is a New Zealand academic and former politician. She was a Member of Parliament from 2002 to 2017 and the female co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand from 2009 to 2017. Turei resigned from the co-leader position on 9 August 2017 amid a political controversy arising from her admission to lying to the Ministry of Social Development to receive higher payments when she was on the Domestic Purposes Benefit and later, to being enrolled to vote in an electorate where she was not eligible when she was 23.[4]
She was the Green Party spokesperson on Inequality, Justice, and Building and Housing.[5] She resigned as co-leader of the Green Party and a list candidate immediately prior to the 2017 general election and retired from politics.[6]
^"Metiria Turei's daughter 'would've been hungry'". Newshub. 23 July 2017. Archived from the original on 14 October 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
^Turei 2017, pp. 184–190.
^Turei 2017, p. 193.
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^"Metiria Turei MP". Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. Archived from the original on 6 April 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
^"Metiria Turei bows out". Radionz.co.nz. 24 September 2017. Archived from the original on 20 November 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
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