New Zealand elections: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern given the winner
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on October 17, 2020, in Auckland.
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According to final partial results, the outgoing Prime Minister of New Zealand won a landslide victory on Saturday, October 17, even offering herself an absolute majority in Parliament.
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Kudos to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, whom I called, because these are, I believe, extraordinary results for the Labor Party
”.
It was with these words on television that New Zealand opposition leader Judith Collins of the National Party officially recognized the victory of Labor Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in the general election on Saturday evening.
After two-thirds of the votes were counted, the Prime Minister was on the way to winning 64 of the 120 seats in Parliament.
In power since 2017, Jacinda Ardern, just forty, had focused in her campaign on her very solid record in the
fight against the Covid-19 pandemic
.
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Thank you to the many people who gave us their votes, who trusted us to continue to lead New Zealand's recovery
,” she said.
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