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# Labour and Greens block Seymour’s motion on Charlie Kirk tribute
- URL: https://goodoil.news/labour-and-greens-block-seymours-motion-on-charlie-kirk-tribute/
- Published: 2025-09-12T23:16:01.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-13T01:28:51.000Z
- Description: “The bitter and tragic irony that a person promoting free speech over political violence was subject to political violence."
- Author: Centrist
- Tags: News

Summarised by [Centrist](http://www.centrist.nz/?ref=goodoil.news)

**Acting Prime Minister David Seymour says Labour and the Greens blocked his bid for Parliament to honour Charlie Kirk, the American political commentator, who was assassinated this week.** 

**Seymour said Kirk’s death was “the bitter and tragic irony that a person promoting free speech over political violence was subject to political violence,” arguing that it resonated with many New Zealanders.**

> 🚨 BREAKING: Maori men are now going viral for performing Haka for Charlie Kirk.  
>  
> This is absolutely insane. Charlie's impact spread across cultures. It was not only America, not even close.[pic.twitter.com/fvPzAocfMB](https://t.co/fvPzAocfMB?ref=goodoil.news)
> 
> — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) [September 12, 2025](https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/1966594437955440822?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=goodoil.news)

Seymour wanted the House to record a statement affirming freedom of expression and condemning political violence. Still, Labour deputy leader Carmel Sepuloni said there was no precedent for paying tribute to overseas figures with no formal link to New Zealand. 

A Green Party spokesperson echoed that, saying there was “no clear reason for making an exception” in Kirk’s case. Seymour called the refusal “a real shame on behalf of Labour and the Greens.”

[**Read more over at Stuff**](https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360820123/live-charlie-kirk-shot-dead-university-event-utah?ref=goodoil.news)

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