Posted on 01/19/2023 4:37:37 AM PST by simpson96
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Thursday that she will step down, saying she no longer had “enough in the tank” after a premiership defined by her response to a series of crises.
Ardern, 42, has become a global progressive icon since her election in 2017 and won praise for her handling of the nation’s worst mass shooting and the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. But her approval ratings have plummeted at home, jeopardizing her re-election prospects and intensifying the vitriolic abuse she has experienced throughout her time in office.
“With such a privileged role comes responsibility — the responsibility to know when you are the right person to lead, and also when you are not,” Ardern said in a surprise announcement in Napier, where her governing center-left Labour Party is holding a caucus retreat. “I know what this job takes, and I know that I no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice.”
She said she would resign as prime minister no later than Feb. 7 and would not seek re-election to Parliament later this year.
“This has been the most fulfilling 5½ years of my life, but it has also had its challenges,” Ardern told reporters. “Among an agenda focused on housing, child poverty and climate change, we encountered a major biosecurity incursion, a domestic terror event, a major natural disaster, a global pandemic and an economic crisis.
“The decisions that have had to be made have been continual, and they have been weighty,” she said.
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You can find her resignation online. Watch it and tell me she’s not addicted to cocaine.
Maybe Klaus Schwab is bringing her onboard his world destruction machine
A "mostly kind" vicious woman. May many more of her mostly kind kind follow her into oblivion.
Glue factory please
Good riddance to the moron and tyrant. She loved those lockdowns. Sad to say, the people of NZ went along with her bullcrap Cocid19 programs. Everyone there must be maximally vaxxed
Totalitarianism is hard work.
Poor baby couldn’t take the heat of her commie bastard ways, huh?
She, as many lefttards do, suffers from an incurable disease known as IIS. Idiotic, Incomitance, and Stupid.
IIS is in epidemic proportions here in the Norther Hemisphere and continues to spread, especially through our educational system.
No known cure as it resists strenuously allowing the mind to absorb any information that is contrary to the original exposure, thereby shielding the brain from any and all truths and realities.
It does thing regardless of age once assumed that maturity would alleviate the symptoms and allow reality to finally cure IIS. But, unfortunately some of the most severely impact are those elderly individuals that will not allow for any moderating a position once taken. Sad
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