{"id":10766,"date":"2019-11-05T08:44:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T23:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/05\/christopher-luxon-to-stand-for-national-party-in-auckland-seat-of-botany"},"modified":"2019-11-05T08:44:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T23:44:34","slug":"christopher-luxon-to-stand-for-national-party-in-auckland-seat-of-botany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10766","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Luxon to stand for National party in Auckland seat of Botany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Air New Zealand CEO will run against Jami-Lee Ross who spectacularly fell out with National party last year<\/p>\n<p>The former chief executive of Air New Zealand has become the National party\u2019s official candidate for the Auckland seat of Botany, kick-starting speculation that Christopher Luxon is vying \u2013 eventually \u2013 to become prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>Luxon, 49, resigned as the national carrier\u2019s chief executive in September after seven years leading the airline through a period of success and growth,\u2013 including repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airnewzealand.co.nz\/press-release-2017-air-nz-named-airline-of-the-year\">being named the world\u2019s best airline<\/a>. He has also held a number of senior roles with the multinational company Unilever over a period of 18 years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/05\/christopher-luxon-to-stand-for-national-party-in-auckland-seat-of-botany\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Air New Zealand CEO will run against Jami-Lee Ross who spectacularly fell out with National party last yearThe former chief executive of Air New Zealand has become the National party\u2019s official candidate for the Auckland seat of Botany, kick-sta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10767,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10766\/revisions\/10767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}