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SYDNEY: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is poised to retain power in next month’s election, a widely viewed poll showed on Sunday (September 27), though she said a recent COVID-19 outbreak has affected slightly your support.
A Newshub-Reid research poll released on Sunday showed support for Ardern’s Labor Party at 50.1 percent, though this is down from the record 60.9 percent recorded earlier this year when New Zealand was widely praised as a world leader in the fight against COVID-19. .
Support for the main opposition party, the National Party, was 29.6 percent, an increase of 4.5 percentage points.
If the poll results materialize, Ardern would rule without relying on any coalition partner.
New Zealand was COVID-free for 102 days until a second wave hit Auckland last month.
Ardern became the country’s youngest leader in more than 150 years in 2017 after New Zealand’s first nationalist king-making party agreed to form a government with her Labor Party, ending the National Party’s decade in power.
Ardern, 40, also has great global appeal due to his response to last year’s attack by a white supremacist on two mosques, a fatal volcanic eruption, and his success with the COVID-19 outbreak.
