> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://goodoil.news/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1245/
- Published: 2025-07-04T18:30:11.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-04T18:30:10.000Z
- Description: Earlier this year, Waititi shared a video of Traoré on Instagram, with a comment labelling the president his “modern day hero!”.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour has labelled Te Pāti Māori a threat to democracy after its co-leader Rawiri Waititi declared a West African military ruler to be his “modern day hero”.  
>  
> Burkina Faso’s leader Ibrahim Traoré has grown in popularity across Africa and beyond, since seizing power in a 2022 coup, with many praising him as a symbol of resistance to the West.  
>  
> Earlier this year, Waititi shared a video of Traoré on Instagram, with a comment labelling the president his “modern day hero!”.  
>  
> “Tino rangatira is not only a domestic commitment, it is an international determination. Our fight for political, economic, social and cultural independence and liberation is not a dream, it’s a decision!” Waititi wrote.  
>  
> The post provoked the ire of the ACT Party’s leader, who cited it as evidence of Te Pāti Māori’s “insane views”.  
>  
> “Rawiri Waititi once said he’s not a fan of democracy. We need to take him seriously,” a spokesperson for Seymour said in a statement.  
>  
> “His hero is a Marxist dictator who has delayed elections and banned homosexuality... \[Te Pāti Māori is\] not in Parliament to uphold democracy, but wreck it.”  
>  
> Te Pāti Māori declined RNZ’s request for a response: “We will not be commenting on this.”  
>  
> NZ Herald

[Read More](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/david-seymour-criticises-rawiri-waititi-for-insane-views-about-african-leader-ibrahim-traore/7OLIPNSESVA4TMS3ZIWGF66GLY/?ref=goodoil.news)