Posted on 10/14/2023 3:56:29 AM PDT by Cronos
After an election campaign of fits and starts, in which neither major party appeared to offer much solace to a weary nation, voters in New Zealand on Saturday ousted the party once led by Jacinda Ardern and elected the country’s most right-wing government in a generation, handing victory to a coalition of two conservative parties.
New Zealand’s next prime minister will be Christopher Luxon, a former chief executive of Air New Zealand, whose center-right National Party will lead a coalition with Act, a smaller libertarian party.
Addressing a euphoric crowd at his party’s victory event on Auckland’s waterfront, Mr. Luxon thanked supporters and promised a better and more stable future for the country.
“Our government will deliver for every New Zealander,” he said, to whoops and cheers. “We will rebuild the economy and deliver tax relief.”
...For many voters, Ms. Ardern and her successor, Chris Hipkins, failed to deliver on the Labour Party’s promise of transformational change. In the weeks leading up to the election, New Zealanders, buffeted by the currents of global inflation and its larger Asia Pacific neighbors’ economic woes, overwhelmingly cited cost of living as the primary concern driving their vote.
The new National-led government, despite being more conservative, was unlikely to make significant changes on many social issues, said Ben Thomas, a former press secretary for the National Party.
“Nobody wants to re-litigate abortion or homosexual marriage,” he said. “Unlike the States, where there’s a constant battle to try and roll back progressive legislation, the conservative tradition in New Zealand is ‘We’ve always gone just about far enough.’”
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Conservative is relative. You can thank the tyranny of the labour party for getting this. However, they likely have to form a coalition with all three conservative parties to really run things.
Don’t fret about her future, my friend. She probably has a board position in a university just waiting for her.
She’s so loved in NZ that she actually left the country... Trudeau will likely do the same after he loses in Canada... Even the people who formerly voted for him now hate him.
NZ election results 2023 live updates, analysis: National, Act claim victory; Labour concedes after crushing defeat - Winston Peters celebrates comeback
She’s already continuing her climate change extremism as a trustee of Prince Will’s Earthshot Prize.
There’s always a place for a Castro in Cuba.
“...New Zealand on Saturday ousted the party once led by Jacinda Ardern and elected the country’s most right-wing government...”
You see the blatant bias. The stinking Times does not call Ardern’s government far left wing (which is what they are), and not even referred to as left wing.
Meanwhile, this so-called “right-wing” government is barely centrist and actually leans left.
It just shows how far the New York Toilet paper has gone down the sewer. When Hamas nukes the NYT building, I will open the gates of hell wide open. /spit
Time will tell whether their newly elected “Most Conservative Government in Decades” will back off the citizenry or not.
If they reduce taxes, lay off government employees, reduce regulations, and end gun control, then a lot of people will be happy.
And leftists will be sad, but screw them.
It’s a relative term I guess. JFK would be a conservative by today’s standards.
The Zelensky Curse strikes again!
“Conservative but doesn’t want to limit abortion or end pervertosexual “marriage””
People who don’t have to coexist with someone who has different views and beliefs can afford to be firm on those beliefs. But if you MUST have the votes of people who hold related beliefs where you can agree but will vote against you if you go after their core beliefs then you have to go along with whatever they want. Or you don’t get to do anything on the issues you do agree on.
People will punish a candidate who is not pure enough on their core subjects, preferring to live under tyranny on all subjects just because they can’t get everything they want. It’s cutting your nose off to spite your face.
But, once you have a candidate you mostly agree with, you can often use the political game to get more of what you want. Say, your newly elected candidate wants to spend money on X and your anti-gay marriage vote is the deciding vote on X. Guess what, your anti-gay marriage just became part of the package to spend money on X. That is how politics works in a consensus government.
She probably has a board position in a university just waiting for her.
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Ardern accepted dual fellowships at the Harvard Kennedy School for a semester beginning in fall 2023, to serve as the 2023 Angelopoulos Global Public Leaders Fellow and as a Hauser Leader at the Center for Public Leadership, where she intends to share and learn leadership and governance skills. She will also work with Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society as its first Knight Tech Governance Leadership Fellow during that period where she will focus on the study of online extremism
Not a board position but Harvard is where she landed.
It’s all the same incestuous world.
Yeah, not surprising.
Wonder if new gov will roll back the gun control the filthy commies passed?
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