Posted on 01/18/2023 6:23:16 PM PST by absalom01
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.
Ms Ardern, 42, said she had taken time to consider her future over the summer break.
"I had hoped that I would find what I needed to carry on over that period but, unfortunately, I haven't, and I would be doing a disservice to New Zealand to continue," she told reporters.
Ms Ardern became the youngest female head of government in the world when she was elected prime minister in 2017, aged 37.
And a year later she became the second elected world leader to ever give birth while in office.
She steered New Zealand through the Covid-19 pandemic and its ensuing recession, 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," she said.
"These events... have been taxing because of the weight, the sheer weight and continual nature of them. There's never really been a moment where it's ever felt like we were just governing."
Ms Ardern led the Labour Party to a landslide election victory in 2020, but her domestic popularity has declined to new lows in recent months, according to opinion polls.
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Will other COVID lockdown enthusiasts follow suit?
Good riddance to a would-be vaccine and lockdown tyrant.
Not sure if her replacement would be any better though.
Tyrant mom Nazi Newzealander zealot.
Damage done!.
She will now have time to learn how to pronounce the vowel sounds in the English language.
“Test” rhymes with “best,” not “Beest.”
As a beaver, she does not chew enough trees, so her teeth grow out so long she cannot pronounce her vowels.
Annoying.
Maybe the 4th Reich leaders of the WEF in Davos gave her, her marching orders.
One of the world’s truly evil people.
She polled at 29% approval, around Trump’s all-time low, just last month. My guess is she was forced out.
[[would-be vaccine and lockdown tyrant.]]
Not to mention anti-Second Amendment tyrant too
“Ding dong!”
She was kinda hot in a Gretchen Whitmer sort of way....
Witchmer is just a fat Nurse Ratchett.
Arden will have the legacy of, once and for all, PROVING that women as leaders, are more dictatorial and war mongering than men. This level of responsibility is simply too higher for such emotionally-charged people.
Did she ever get married ???
She’s the worst.
Ole Donkey Teeth is being put out to pasture I see.
Good. It will be easier to have her arrested and put on trial for her Covid response as a private citizen.
Jacinda Ardern was a tyrant and unfit to lead!!!!
And look—Harvard had her speak at its 2022 commencement, and gave her an honorary degree!!!!
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/05/jacinda-arderns-forceful-warning-democracies-can-die/
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/5/26/commencement-2022/
Harvard also had corrupt Merrick Garland as a speaker as part of its 2022 commencement exercises!
I received a well-earned PhD from Harvard, so I have a dog in this fight!!!!
The sample pool is rather small. In modern history, you have Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher. I'll love to fight for them. That said, I would rather vote for a male leader. They're less emotional. More rational. Even though some of them are tyrants (Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and a few others who are dictators right now)
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