Green Party gives update on Darleen Tana

representing darene tner notifying us that they had lodged proceedings in the high court seeking judicial review of the green party myself and The Honorable M Davidson as co-leaders and Cony head of our governing Council yesterday evening at approximately 5:25 p.m. we received further notice that an application for an interim injunction had been filed at the Oakland High Court seeking an order that the planned special general meeting this Sunday not to go ahead at approximately midday today we received further notice that a hearing has been set down on that interim Junction at 10: a.m. tomorrow in the Oakland High Court over the last 24 hours as you would expect we have been working through our legal options and we continue to do so I am confident that throughout this process we have continued to Center our green cobba as these proceedings are currently before the court I will not be able to make any f comments specifically about this case at this time I am happy to take your questions but please note that unfortunately my answers will be constrained by those present legal proceedings it is what it is what's your understanding of the legality around a junction around a special general meeting day or Juris there no legality around when you can meet uh good question Jason and again I'd say that on the specifics of this case and the proceedings that are occurring tomorrow morning uh we are being careful about the statements that we are making publicly we have continued to follow process as best as we possibly can to Center our green party CER and again we are focused on getting to the appropriate outcome here say right now if you actually still plan to meet on Sunday what I can say is that in the next uh kind of 24 hours especially subsequent to that court hearing tomorrow morning we will have more to share with all of you and I want to be really clear that we have done absolutely everything that we can here to ensure that we can be fully transparent with you and share all of the information in due course right now a lot of that information is subject to confidentiality and legal advice right now at this point in time [Music] noy uh look again we're in a situation where we're working through uh what the Judiciary might come up with uh but again I I think it's pretty clear to anybody who has followed the developments over the last few months uh that we've continued to put our values front in Center which has included integrity and transparency [Music] yeah and I don't think that it's helpful for me presently to speculate prior to what occurs tomorrow morning uh no have you had any further correspondence from her or there been any interaction beyond the the lawyers correspondency details here and then since that letter from last week uh none that I'm aware of now so the later the later the still business as usual for the green party on Sunday with your ho uh as we said at the time that we outlined the process for the special general meeting uh and when we receive and at the receipt of that letter all of that would be considered by all of our party membership and that L has gone out to all of our party membership who have access to it uh and has been deliberated upon I think it's pretty clear to anyone who's been watching the developments over the last few months um what we continue to be focused on is doing everything that we can to put Focus back on the issues that actually matter to people which is people in Planet no one person is bigger than this Cooper shex I think that you'll find that many uh who have provided commentary in the public sphere have agreed with that statement is it that uh so our our lawyer is operating on a pro bono basis why uh I'm assuming that this is a pretty interesting case so they do doing it because they're interested in it uh I haven't got into the details of the motivations behind that this has been dealt with well I mean Jason you may want to get involved in a very na interesting P for war looking at the previous case to the Supreme Court of something that has been um you been looking through this may influence this T yeah sure of course I mean that's the way the precent works right but I think that we sometimes lose sight of the trees when we've been discussing this issue uh what we are talking about is somebody who currently occupies a seat in our Parliament that was earned by the 330,000 new zealanders who voted for the green party at this most recent election those new zealanders voted for our principles and our values and our policies and we very strongly are off the view and our cus has taken the unprecedented STS of requesting unanimously the uh resignation of Daring Tana on the basis that they have completely demonstrated an undermining of those very Val and principles confid yeah but again we've currently got this case before the courts and we'll work through the process let's talk about the real victims here uh those workers that are identified in the executive summary that we've also worked really hard to provide to the public so that they can make their own judgments [Music] crystal clear here the best way to minimize all further harm and any further collateral damage is for darana to take accountability and responsibility and to resign that's the same position that we have held for more than a month now J question are you that this is a kind of telling political party members of political party they don't we don't know we don't know that yet so we're waiting what occurs after given that you haven't yet cancelled the eventual postponing that your lawyers working for free I mean a pretty strong indication to us that this is a cut and dry case from perspective you don't to see much gener in what she's um using this conjunction is that a fair characterization I don't think it would be helpful for me off speculation to that effect but we will have more to say tomorrow after those another way keeping you awake at night no yes and as I understand it having had communication with our party co-conveners uh there should have been some form of Correspondence going out to our party membership the last half hour or so do you think respons uh look again let's not put the C before the course but you know I've been pretty straight up about the fact that our membership has been incredibly frustrated by the way that things have played out here and definitely the sentiment that I am hearing uh is that yes there is a very strong sense that people would like some accountability and responsibility do you see this is being tested or do you see this as a last Dash effort somebody that's desperately trying to keep their job I believe it to the commentar yet do you think we trying to object you from Mee I mean guys you've been following this it is what it is uh this is very much in line with the kinds of actions that we've seen over the last few weeks and months so we're dealing with what we've got now right in front of us and we have control over our actions and our actions will be continue to be led and centered around our green party values I mean your guest is as good as mine will you attend the hearing tomorrow sorry will you attend the hearing I personally will not be at the hearing but our legal representative will be I will be in R meeting with affected workers with the proposed Clos closure of the [Music] maill uh no one Within our party leadership uh or within our caucus uh but that you know we have thousands of members all across the country do you advis I've got absolutely no idea what would be your message to seter I think it just Remains the Same that we've been saying time and again which is that you know darene has an opportunity here to go tail any further harm any further collateral damage to take accountability to take responsibility and and to step down that will allow all of us to put our Focus back on the things that we all say that we care about which is people and Planet you think there is of a group of people around the list of kitty kitty who are behind the scenes here uh incoporating kind of you know white you and what with I'm not very to speculate on that would your party though have been more transparent about this obviously this all came to life I'm confident that time and again uh myself as co-leader alongside M and James and mmer did the best that they could with the information available with to them and with values Forefront of Mind do you think people more transparent look I think that hindsight is 2020 but again we're dealing with the situation that we've got uh we are human beings that are consistently trying to do our best by our values and by the people that are involved in our party and by the general public that we're elected to represent you anticipa in Le challenge this uh look I I've never found it particularly helpful uh over the last few months to speculate on what might potentially be coming next and all we've done is got every step in front of each other with our values at the Forefront mind but any point say could have been but again what does that speculation give there's no benefit to me yeah sorry yeah but prepare for what precisely I think as we've all just found this is a pretty novel situation do you think D Sor a little would you call on the of intervention that can have I don't think it's useful for me to speculate on that look we are in an unprecedented situation as I think all of us of canas many many times over over the last few months where we're in a situation where the green party for the first time ever has said that we have a member of parliament who came on on our list that we believe is not fit to be a member of Parliament and that was unanimously recommended by our caucus for them to resign we now have to Grapple with the logical consequences of that we obviously have a piece of law that can operationalize that in the So-Cal party hopping legislation and obviously we've also outlined that we have a vexed history with that legislation and that really boils down to two key points the first is concern historically about how that could potentially be used to remove somebody from Parliament who is stepping out on a matter of principle to anybody who reads this executive summary I think we're seeing quite the opposite and somebody abandoning their principles and secondly the potential for concentration of power in political party leaders hands here again we're operating entirely differently from there by going out to our entire party membership to select approximately 200 uh delegates to vote at the sgm trying feels like democracy and I'm sure we'll offer further Reflections if it does turn out to be the case but yeah I think at this point in time we're putting one one foot in front of the other cool thanks so much guys for