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Introducing her highly diverse new government, Jacinda Ardern, former Prime Minister of New Zealand – includes eight women, five Maori and three politicians from the LGBT community.
Considered a longtime ally of the prime minister, Grant Robertson will be the island’s staunchly gay first deputy prime minister and will also continue to lead the finance portfolio.
Nanaia Mahuta, who has been nominated as head of the Foreign Ministry and has a typical native Maori tattoo on her chin, will be the island’s Prime Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Also Maori Kelvin Davis, who will lead a portfolio on children’s issues.
The left-wing Liberal Labor Party, led by the old and new prime minister, won a landslide victory in the two-week parliamentary elections, garnering 49 percent of the vote and forming a single government. Since the introduction of the proportional electoral system in New Zealand in 1996, no party has been successful.
Although Ardern’s party will form a single government, on Sunday it signed a cooperation agreement with its former coalition partner, the Green Party, which it says they will work together to address climate and environmental issues, as well as the well-being of children. As a result of the agreement, two Green Party politicians will also assume ministerial functions.
The prime minister said that it was a cabinet in which politicians were admitted on their merits and it turned out to be extremely diverse, of which he is very proud.
Ardern, who took office in 2017 at the age of 37, owes his popularity and re-election in part to his successful handling of the epidemic. In the five million island nations, 1,600 cases of infection have been reported so far and 25 have died from coronavirus-induced Covid-19, a much smaller proportion than in many other developed countries.
(via MTI)
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