Jacinda Ardern will remain in her post until next month before joining Parliament. The next general election will be held on October 14.
For iProfessional
01/19/2023 – 12:04 p.m.
The Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, announced that He will resign from the post in February.and that the Labor caucus will elect a new leader a few days later.
He also anticipated that the next general election will be held on October 14and that until then he will continue as a member of Parliament.
In his first public appearance since Parliament went into recess in December, Ardern confided that at his party’s annual meeting I hoped to find the energy to continue as a leader“but I have not been able to do it,” he said.
In addition, the prime minister maintained that “For me it is time”, in reference to her departure from the government; meanwhile, the deputy prime minister, Grant Robertson, has already announced that she will not run for the position that will be vacant in a short time.
Jacinda Ardern’s resignation
“I’m not leaving because I think we can’t win the next election, but because I think we can (win) and we will,” Ardern said.who had risen to power in 2017 under a coalition government and then led his center-left party to a sweeping victory in the 2020 election, but his popularity and that of his party have plummeted of late.
In addition, he stressed that there is no ulterior motive behind his resignation. “I am human, we give everything we can until the time comesand for me the time has come,” he said.
In 2018, Jacinda Ardern became the first female Prime Minister to take maternity leave.
“I’m leaving because with such a privileged job there is a great responsibility, the responsibility of knowing when you are the right person to lead and when not,” he continued in his last message.
Jacinda Arden’s Career
Ardern has been in charge of the New Zealand administration since August 2017, at which time she was the Youngest head of government in the world, at 37 years old.
She was also the first female president in history to take maternity leave. -in 2018-, although she was the second to give birth while in charge of the Government, preceded in this regard by the Pakistani Benazir Bhutto, in 1990 as Télam recalled.
Graduated in Political Science, Ardern began her parliamentary career in 2008 and has led the Labor Party since August 1, 2017.
“It is a mixture of steel and kindness,” the British newspaper The Guardian defined it years ago.
In 2019, she was praised for her handling of the worst massacre in modern historyknown as the Christchurch bombings, which left 50 dead and dozens injured. Less than a month after that massacre, he pushed for – and obtained from parliament – the approval of a law that severely restricted the sale of arms.
The following year his management of the coronavirus pandemicwhich allowed his country to have one of the lowest records of infections and deaths from the disease, and during which the salary was reduced.
