Hone Harawira's future with the Maori Party is on the line.
The Te Tai Tokerau MP is meeting party officials today following the controversy over him skipping a meeting in Brussels with European parliamentarians to go to Paris on a sightseeing trip with his wife, Hilda.
Mr Harawira will also have to explain an abusive email he sent to former Waitangi Tribunal director Buddy Mikaere in response to a query about who had paid for Mrs Harawira to go on the European trip.
The MP wrote: "Gee Buddy, do you believe that white man bullshit, too, do you? White motherf***ers have been raping our lands and ripping us off for centuries and all of a sudden you want me to play along with their puritanical bullshit."
Maori Party president Whatarangi Winiata says the behaviour involves "serious breaches of the kaupapa and tikanga of the party".
Mr Harawira has been the subject of previous controversy. In 2007, he left a select committee meeting in Melbourne to visit Aborigine communities in Alice Springs. He also called former Australian Prime Minister John Howard a "racist bastard."
