New Zealand: Jacinda Ardern resigns as New Zealand Prime Minister ahead of this year's election, and Ardern will step down on February 7. The shock announcement comes as polls suggest the Labor Party faces a tough road to re-election on October 14.
Explaining how six "challenging" years at work led to the former prime minister's resignation. Labor MPs will vote on Sunday to find their replacement. If no successor wins the support of two-thirds of the party room, the vote will go to Labour's ordinary membership.
Ms Ardern became the world's youngest head of government when she was elected Prime Minister in 2017 at the age of 37. A year later, she became the second elected world leader to give birth while in office, after Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan in 1990.
She led New Zealand through the Covid-19 pandemic and its subsequent recession, the Christchurch mosque shootings and the White Island volcanic eruption. Ms Ardern said the past five-and-a-half years had been the "most fulfilling" of her life, but leading the country at a time of "crisis" was difficult.
"These events...are taxing because of their weight, their weight, their continuous nature. It never feels like we're in control." Ms Ardern said she was looking forward to marrying her partner Clark Gayford. National Party leader Chris Luxon was among those who thanked Ms Ardern for her "service to New Zealand". "She gave her all to this incredibly demanding job," the opposition leader wrote on Twitter.
But while Ms Ardern is often seen as a political star globally, opinion polls suggest she is far more unpopular at home. Capitalizing on her government's strong early response to the pandemic, she led Labor to victory in the 2020 election. But the latest opinion polls put her personal popularity at the lowest level since she was elected, and approval of her party's performance has fallen correspondingly. She also faces a cost-of-living crisis, a national fear of crime and a backlog of election promises postponed during the pandemic.
A local from her own Auckland electorate said Ms Ardern was "running away before she was kicked out", blaming her for rising crime and the cost of living. Reactions to their resignation announcement have been mixed. Ms Arderson listed her government's achievements on climate change, social housing and reducing child poverty.
But she said she hoped her legacy in New Zealand would be "as someone who always tried to be kind". I hope I leave New Zealanders with the belief that you can be kind but strong, empathetic but critical, optimistic but focused. "You can be your own kind of leader - someone who knows when to go," she said.
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