{"id":2326,"date":"2023-01-20T05:46:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T16:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2023-01-20T05:46:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T16:46:39","slug":"arderns-resignation-as-prime-minister-is-a-game-changer-for-the-2023-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2326","title":{"rendered":"Ardern’s resignation as prime minister is a game changer for the 2023 election"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Zealanders will have a new prime minister by 7 February and will go to the polls on 14 October, after two-term Labour Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced her resignation to spend more time with her family.<\/p>\n

“For me, it’s time,” she said, speaking from the Labour Party’s retreat. “I just don’t have enough in the tank for another four years.”<\/p>\n

Ardern said she would stay on until April as a local MP.<\/p>\n

“Beyond that, I have no plan. No next steps. All I know is that whatever I do, I will try and find ways to keep working for New Zealand and that I am looking forward to spending time with my family again – arguably, they are the ones that have sacrificed the most out of all of us.”<\/p>\n

Ardern’s resignation will come as a shock to many New Zealanders, and especially to people overseas – given the international reputation she earned as prime minister over the past five years.<\/p>\n

But this is less of a surprise for close watchers of New Zealand politics. Back in November 2021, I wrote in\u00a0The Conversation<\/i>:\u00a0“Might Jacinda Ardern stand down?”<\/a>, after Labour changed its rules to make it easier for the party’s leader to be replaced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Zealanders will have a new prime minister by 7 February and will go to the polls on 14 October, after two-term Labour Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced her resignation to spend more time with her family. “For me, it’s time,” she said, speaking from the Labour Party’s retreat. “I just don’t have enough in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2328,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions\/2328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}