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MP for Te Tai Tokerau Mariameno Kapa-Kingi is returning to Parliament for the first time after being temporarily reinstated to Te Pāti Māori.

Kapa-Kingi contested her expulsion in court last week and got her membership back in time for the party's annual general meeting in Rotorua over the weekend.

She told RNZ she wanted to be included in the Māori Party's weekly caucus meeting, though she was yet to get an invite.

"It makes Parliamentary sense to me to do that and I've prepared myself for that but I would expect that a discussion or a reaching out would happen. We'll see."

Regardless of getting an invite to the party's weekly hui, she said she would be showing up and working this week.

"I've already had a couple of meetings in terms of the next two weeks.

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