WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A vote in New Zealand’s parliament was suspended and two lawmakers ejected on Thursday when dramatic political theater erupted over a controversial proposed law redefining the country’s founding agreement between Indigenous ...

New Zealands parliament was temporarily halted by Māori politicians performing a haka. The MP's were angry over a controversial bill and performed the haka as a protest. The proposed law would reinterpret 184 year treaty with the Māori people.

New Zealand’s parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a contentious bill that would reinterpret a 184-year-old treaty between the British and Indigenous Maori.