Saturday, October 14, 2023

#NEWZEALAND: Voters Elect A Conservative Gov't, Reject Labour

[world politics news]


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 were projected to oust the party once led by Left-leaning Jacinda Ardern and elect the country’s most conservative 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.

[FULL STORY HERE]

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