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As expected, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and ‘her’ Labor Party won an outright majority in this weekend’s election, at the expense of how they handled the Covid-19 pandemic, but are ready to deal. to form a coalition government.
The Labor Party can govern itself after winning 64 seats out of 120, and the prime minister said it would take two to three weeks to officially form the new government, following talks with potential coalition partners. “I have been a consensus builder,” he said, quoted by the country’s newspapers.
His main opponent, National Party leader Judith Collins, said on Sunday that she would continue to command the formation, but it is not clear that the party wants to keep it, after the defeat – which for all reasons is also historic.
Green Party co-leaders James Shaw and Marama Davidson confirmed that they had had contacts with Ardern, with whom they were affiliated in the previous government. The party won 10 seats in parliament, two more than it had, and is waiting to be invited to join the new government.
Shaw is confident that the Greens will be included in the executive, to strengthen the majority of the new government. “We want to win again in 2023,” Shaw said. “We are stronger at the end of our first term in government than at the beginning.”
But political analysts in New Zealand say the union leader must take precautions: expectations of her leadership are now so high that it will be difficult for her not to disappoint voters. The party is also full of new and inexperienced MPs, with only a handful of veterans available to manage important portfolios.
In September, New Zealand officially entered a recession, as a result of several lockdowns and closed borders. The tourism, construction and horticulture industries have suffered major stoppages. Therefore, one of the biggest problems facing the country is that of economic recovery and this will be the great test of the Prime Minister’s leadership.
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