⁍ Voters rewarded Jacinda Ardern’s centre-left Labour for its decisive response to COVID-19.
⁍ ‘We will not take your support for granted. And I can promise you we will be a party that governs for every New Zealander,’ she said.
– Jacinda Ardern is New Zealand’s next prime minister after her center-left Labour Party won a stunning victory in the country’s general election Saturday. Ardern, 40, is the youngest woman to serve as prime minister and the first to be elected as leader of a major political party, the BBC reports. She took over as prime minister just last year after her partner, 37-year-old 37-year-old 37-year-old Associate Prime Minister Winston Peters, was killed in a plane crash. “New Zealand has shown the Labour Party its greatest support in almost 50 years,” Ardern told supporters Saturday, per Reuters. “We will not take your support for granted. And I can promise you we will be a party that governs for every New Zealander.”
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-newzealand-election-ardern-lead/new-zealands-ardern-says-her-party-has-mandate-to-lead-government-idUSKBN2720FL