{"id":18600,"date":"2020-05-23T10:38:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T01:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/23\/can-new-zealands-national-party-reinvent-itself-under-todd-muller"},"modified":"2020-05-23T10:38:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T01:38:16","slug":"can-new-zealands-national-party-reinvent-itself-under-todd-muller-jennifer-curtin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18600","title":{"rendered":"Can New Zealand&#8217;s National party reinvent itself under Todd Muller? | Jennifer Curtin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new opposition leader must win back centrist voters, just four months out from the election <\/p>\n<p>It was never a foregone conclusion, but with three poll results in the last three weeks putting National\u2019s support at around 30%, the chances of Bridges remaining as leader were increasingly slim. By 1pm on 22 May, the parliamentary National party had sealed his, and deputy Paula Bennett\u2019s, fate.<\/p>\n<p>The new leader, Todd Muller, now faces the unenviable task of clawing back the centre right voters who appear, for now, to have deserted National in droves.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/23\/can-new-zealands-national-party-reinvent-itself-under-todd-muller\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new opposition leader must win back centrist voters, just four months out from the election It was never a foregone conclusion, but with three poll results in the last three weeks putting National\u2019s support at around 30%, the chances of Bridges rem&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1323,"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":[41,619,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-national-party","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18600","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\/1323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18601,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18600\/revisions\/18601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}