{"id":1810125,"date":"2023-01-18T20:07:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T01:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1810125"},"modified":"2023-01-18T20:30:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T01:30:52","slug":"new-zealand-pm-jacinda-ardern-resigns-ahead-of-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-zealand-pm-jacinda-ardern-resigns-ahead-of-election\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern Resigns Ahead of Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-zealand-pm-jacinda-ardern-resigns-ahead-of-election%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1810125&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/original_Ardern.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/nz-bans-books-covid\">Jacinda Ardern<\/a>He was the prime minister of <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/new-zealand-covid-cases-skyrocket-despite-widespread-vaccinations-long-term-lockdowns\/\">New Zealand<\/a> Since 2017, she has announced her intention to resign effective February 7, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Ardern made her decision at the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/new-zealand-bans-cigarettes-for-all-those-born-after-2009\">Labour Party<\/a>Thursday&#8217;s annual caucus meeting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m leaving because with such a privileged role comes responsibility,&#8221; She said that according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/19\/jacinda-ardern-resigns-as-prime-minister-of-new-zealand\">The Guardian<\/a>. &#8220;The responsibility to know when you are the right person to lead and also when you are not. I know what this job takes, and I know that I no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice. It&#8217;s that simple.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-01-19\/new-zealand-s-ardern-announces-resignation-as-prime-minister?srnd=premium\">Bloomberg<\/a> According to reports Ardern will continue as a parliamentarian until April. A general election is set for October 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ardern was a controversial figure. Her government imposed some of the most severe Covid-19 restrictions on New Zealanders during her tenure as leader. For example, at the outbreak of the pandemic <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/nz-bans-books-covid\">books<\/a> were deemed &#8220;non-essential&#8221; Ardern and other officials tried to keep people inside their homes.<\/p>\n<p>After a six-month period in which no cases had been recorded, Ardern took the whole country to Level 4. <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/new-zealand-lockdown-one-covid-case\">lockdown<\/a> For three days, one man in Auckland had tested positive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>People who refused to follow the draconian policies were subject to severe penalties, including up to US$8,400 in fines.<\/p>\n<p>Ardern was also a strong supporter of tightening restrictions for New Zealanders&#8217; online activities, calling for more censorship.<\/p>\n<p>Ardern&#8217;s popularity plummeted after years of limiting the freedoms of her citizens. A December 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/24\/jacinda-arderns-popularity-plummeted-this-year-things-could-get-worse-in-2023\">poll<\/a> Her support was now at just 33%.<\/p>\n<p>Support for the centre right National Party was at 39 percent. In the first polls for the new year, they are still leading.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a breaking news story, and we will update it.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacinda ArdernHe was the prime minister of New Zealand Since 2017, she has announced her intention to resign effective February 7, 2017. Ardern made her decision at the Labour PartyThursday&#8217;s annual caucus meeting.\u00a0 \u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;m leaving because with such a privileged role comes responsibility,&#8221; She said that according to The Guardian. &#8220;The responsibility to know &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1810128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[10647,5458,3728,10650,3819,4975,8627],"class_list":["post-1810125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-ardern","tag-bongino","tag-election","tag-jacinda","tag-report","tag-resigns","tag-zealand"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1810128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}