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The Labor Party, led by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, won today’s general election in New Zealand.
In the elections, where 96 percent of the ballot counts were completed, the Labor Party, which received 49 percent of the votes based on uncertain results, won 64 seats in the 120-member parliament.
The main opposition party, the National Party, won 26.9 percent of the vote, obtaining 35 seats, while the remaining 21 seats were divided among the 4 parties.
National Party Leader Judith Collins announced that she congratulated Prime Minister Ardern after the results.
Ardern began his victory speech in his native language.
Opening his victory speech to his supporters in the Maori language of New Zealand natives, Ardern said: “New Zealand has shown the strongest support for the Labor Party in the last 50 years,” he said.
Thanking volunteers and supporters of the Labor Party campaign, Ardern said: “We have received support both in the cities and in the countryside, we won the seats we expected to win but did not expect to win.” used expressions.
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“We will appreciate your support, we will be a party that observes the demands of all New Zealanders,” Ardern told people who voted in this election despite the fact that he had not previously supported the Labor Party. grateful for the words.
A POWER FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER 24 YEARS
Election results show that for the first time in the country that has been governed by coalition governments since 1996, a single party led the way to power.
Prime Minister Ardern, who won 46 seats in the last general election in 2017 and formed a coalition government with the New Zealand First Party, with the external support of New Zealand’s Green Patron, achieved great success by increasing the number of number of deputies in these elections.
The National Party, which won 56 deputies in the 2017 elections but was unable to form a government, lost 21 deputies and became the second party in parliament.
New Zealand’s first ruling partner party, which suffered a huge loss of votes in the general election and was unable to maintain its 7.20 vote rate in the previous elections, was unable to secure a MP for the remaining 2.7 votes.
The Green Party, which externally supports the coalition government, increased its share of the vote from 6.27 to 7.5, bringing in 11 MPs, while the New Zealand Action Party (ACT), which received 8 percent, won 10 and the Maori Party , representing the indigenous population, won 1.
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ARDERN BECOMES A POLITICIAN ADMIRED BY THE COUNTRY AND THE WORLD
Ardern, 40, the third prime minister of New Zealand, was appreciated in her country and in the world for her sensitive attitude in the terrorist attack against the Muslim community in Christchurch last year and the effective measures she took against the new type. coronavirus epidemic (Kovid-19).
On March 15, 2019, Ardern strongly condemned terrorist Brenton Tarrant’s terrorist attack on the El Nur Mosque and the Linwood Islamic Center in Christchurch, in which 51 people were killed and 49 injured, provided live azan readings on national channels and he wore a headscarf in commemorative ceremonies, which he presented to Muslim citizens. he was considered a symbol of peace for his support.
Ardern also showed decisive and effective leadership against the Kovid-19 outbreak, and with strict quarantine measures in place by closing borders except for its own citizens, the archipelago of 5 million 92 thousand people was the least affected by the virus.
