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Nicola Sturgeon says Scotland could learn something from Jacinda Ardern’s victory speech after her landslide general election in New Zealand.
Ms Arden won a second term as Prime Minister of the country.
Addressing the country, the prime minister said: “As a national, we can listen, we can debate.
“We are too young to lose sight of other people’s perspective.”
It was this quote from his speech that struck a chord with Scotland’s Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon the most.
Sturgeon took to social media to alert Scots to Ardern’s “excellent victory speech” and claimed his words were “a lesson for Scotland as well”.
The FM wrote on Twitter on Saturday: “Congratulations on your resounding re-election Jacinda Ardern.
In a beautiful victory speech these words resonate and perhaps also teach a lesson for Scotland: ‘As a nation we can listen, we can debate … we are too small to lose sight of other people’s perspective.
But an opposition politician argued that Scots should aim to learn a somewhat different lesson.
However, Labor MP Paul Sweeney responded to Sturgeon’s tweet stating that the government should not be ‘so’ focused on division and grievance ‘.
He wrote: “The lesson for Scotland is to vote Labor for good government.
“For a government focused on unity and cooperation to materially improve lives, not one focused on division and grievance, based purely on an abstract concept of national identity.”
Ardern’s center-left Labor Party won 49 percent of the vote. It is predicted that it will obtain a rare absolute parliamentary majority.
The vote was originally supposed to be in September, but it was postponed a month after a new Covid-19 outbreak.
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