Jacinda Ardern: New Zealand PM to Step Down Next Month

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Jacinda Ardern: New Zealand PM to step down next month

January 23, 2023



Posing as a Muslim for a day didn't help her popularity

Jacinda Ardern has announced she will quit as New Zealand prime minister next month, saying she no longer has "enough in the tank" to lead.Ms Ardern choked up as she detailed how six "challenging" years in the job had taken a toll. She will step down as Labour Party leader no later than 7 February. There will be a vote in the coming days to determine her replacement. New Zealand will hold a general election on 14 October... She has led New Zealand through the Covid-19 pandemic, the Christchurch mosque shootings, and the White Island volcanic eruption. "It's one thing to lead your country through peace time, it's another to lead them through crisis," ...

Ardern received her education from Freemasons

  Her domestic popularity has declined to new lows in recent months, according to opinion polls. But Ms Ardern said she was not resigning because she believed Labour could not win the election, but because she thought it would.

Jacinda Ardern: New Zealand PM to step down next month - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64327224

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Jacinda Ardern quit as PM saying she wanted to be remembered for her kindness. But that's an arrogant slap in the face to all the Kiwis who'll never forget her cruelty during Covid

By Cameron Carpenter | Daily Mail (UK) | 19 January 2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11652001/Jacinda-Arderns-kindness-rings-hollow-thousands-Kiwis-locked-New-Zealand.html

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Excerpt: For more than two years New Zealanders were locked out of their own country as Ardern imposed some of the harshest Covid restrictions in the world.

Like many New Zealanders living overseas, I will not remember this time as a display of her trademark brand of kindness and empathy.

I moved to Sydney with the understanding that I was always a three-hour flight away from my family in Wellington, but like the vast majority of expats I was unable to return home for more than two years.

This really hit home for me when my mother, a mental health nurse, was kicked down the stairs by a patient and suffered a devastating concussion, and Ardern's draconian border closures meant I couldn't be there for her when she needed me most.

In a staggering human rights violation, New Zealand citizens overseas had to apply to enter their own country, with a small number of places only available via an online lottery system.

More than 50,000 Kiwis applied to gain entry every month, but only 5,000 were let in.

Ardern tried to justified the harsh controls by saying 'not everyone could come home when they wanted to, but COVID could not come in when it wanted to, either.'

But despite her flimsy justifications, many Kiwis will forever associate her decision to stop them from entering her own country with heartache.

At the end of her resignation speech Ardern declared, 'I hope I leave behind a belief that you can be kind. Empathetic, but decisive. Optimistic, but focused.'

For New Zealanders like me, she leaves behind the lasting memory of the cruelty of her pandemic policies.

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It's a wonder there is anybody left in NZ to Govern the joint? How many citizens are there and how many actually live there?

Nice place but the rate of pay Is rubbish compared the the cost of living!