Under the current leadership of Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, it promotes the following policies: the upholding of tikanga Māori, the dismantling of systemic racism, and the strengthening of the rights and tino rangatiratanga[8][9] promised in Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

[21] Waititi joined Ngarewa-Packer as co-leader in October 2020 and the pair led the party to win six electorate seats and 3.08% of the popular vote in the 2023 general election.

A court judgement stated that some Māori appeared to have the right to seek formal ownership of a specific portion of seabed in the Marlborough Sounds.

[23] Turia, a junior minister, after being informed that voting against the government would appear "incompatible" with holding ministerial rank, announced on 30 April 2004 her intention to resign from the Labour Party.

This contradicted Māori Party President Che Wilson, who had set out a clear preference to work with Labour and had said "if we ever do talk to National it will have to be a big deal for us to move that way again.

[49][50] At the 2020 general election, held in October, the Māori Party's Rawiri Waititi captured the Waiariki electorate, defeating Labour MP Tāmati Coffey by a margin of 836 votes.

"[56] On 12 April 2021, the Electoral Commission referred Te Pāti Māori to the Police for failing to disclose about NZ$320,000 worth of donations within the required timeframe.

[58] By late September 2022, the Serious Fraud Office had closed the investigation and decided not to pursue prosecutions against the individuals and parties involved.

[59] In June 2021, Te Pāti Māori called for a joint task force between the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service and New Zealand Police targeting right-wing extremists and rising anti-Māori hate speech in response to a YouTube video featuring a masked man calling for the slaughter of Māori and for a civil war.

[65] In the complaint to the IPCA, the party accused the police of having double standards when dealing with death threats made against Pākehā and Māori.

[66] Party co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer stated, "Communication and response time was inadequate, the police have continued to minimise the nature of the threat against us and our people".

[66] On 29 August 2023, Te Pāti Māori made a series of tweets apologizing to refugee and migrant communities for "harmful narratives" of "xenophobia and racism" on their official party website.

"[69] On 3 May 2023, sitting minister Meka Whaitiri announced that she had left the Labour Party to join Te Pāti Māori.

Speaker of the House Adrian Rurawhe confirmed that Whaitiri would serve the remainder of her 2020–2023 term as an independent member of Parliament under standing order 35(5), which avoids invoking the "waka-jumping" provisions of the Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Act 2018.

In response, Rurawhe ordered Ngarewa-Packer and Waititi to leave Parliament since they had not obtained the permission of the Speaker or other parliamentary parties to hold the haka.

[79] During an interview with TVNZ journalist Jack Tame in September 2023, Waititi also denied that his party's sports policy' comments about "Māori genetic makeup being stronger than others" were racist.

When challenged by Tame, he responded that TPM was "trying to empower people that are climbing out from the bottom of the bonnet of colonial violence for the last 193 years" by encouraging pride in their heritage.

Te Pāti Māori's candidate Takutai Moana Kemp had won the Tāmaki Makaurau electorate during the 2023 general election.

In response, Te Pāti Māori leader Tamihere denied the allegations and claimed that they were made by disgruntled former staff.

Tamihere also acknowledged that marae workers had given gifts to encourage people to participate in the 2023 Census and switch to the Māori roll but denied allegations of wrongdoing.

[87] On 5 June, Vance reported that the Labour Party had filed a complaint against Te Pāti Māori in November 2023 for allegedly using personal information collected during the COVID-19 immunisation programme for political campaigning purposes during the 2023 election, which constitutes a breach of electoral law.

[91] On 7 June, co-leaders Waititi and Ngarewa-Packer called for an urgent Police investigation into the data breach allegations made against Te Pāti Māori.

Employment advocate Allan Hulse, who represented six former Manurewa Marae staff and the MSD employee, alleged that 1,400 census forms were photocopied and uploaded into a database owned by the Waiparera Trust.

The report made nine recommendations to improve Statistics NZ's procedures and referred allegations against Manurewa Marae to the Privacy Commissioner.

[117] In 2022 on Waitangi Day, the party called for Queen Elizabeth II to be removed as New Zealand's head of state and for the return of land to iwi and hapū.

[13] In September 2021 the party launched an online petition to: In its statement is mentioned Article 3 of the Treaty of Waitangi which gave the Māori language equal status with English.

[124] In May 2021, Te Pāti Māori co-leaders Ngarewa-Packer and Waititi supported Green Member of Parliament Golriz Ghahraman's push for New Zealand to recognise the State of Palestine.

[125] During the Israel–Hamas war, Te Pāti Māori advocated the expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador, Ran Yaakoby if Israel did not implement a ceasefire or open a humanitarian corridor in Gaza.

[126] Co-leader Ngarewa Packer also defended Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick's controversial "From the river to the sea" statement and urged the care-taker Labour Government to call for an "end to war crimes.

Te Ururoa Flavell announced his interest in a leadership role, but as the Māori Party constitution required male and female co-leaders, he could not take Turia's place.