Labour MP Gaurav Sharma has been suspended from caucus effective immediately, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced.
It is the "most appropriate" response to "repeated breaches of trust" committed by the MP, Ardern said after a special party caucus meeting today.
Sharma, who did not attend the meeting, was phoned, texted and emailed to join today's meeting but did not join, Ardern said.
Newstalk ZB Political Editor Barry Soper told Heather du Plessis Allan Sharma's being given a second chance of sorts.
“He’s on a good behaviour bond, even though they won’t call it that. So, he’s been suspended and that what means is Labour will continue to get his vote, if they’d expelled him from caucus they wouldn’t get that, not that they’d need it anyway.”
The decision will be reviewed in December.
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