{"id":18725,"date":"2020-05-27T10:19:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T01:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/27\/new-zealand-winston-peters-jacinda-ardern-lift-covid-19-lockdown"},"modified":"2020-05-27T10:19:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T01:19:47","slug":"new-zealand-deputy-pm-breaks-ranks-to-urge-ardern-to-lift-covid-19-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18725","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand deputy PM breaks ranks to urge Ardern to lift Covid-19 lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Political kingmaker Winston Peters says nation has been in lockdown for \u2018too long\u2019 and calls for immediate move to the lowest level of restrictions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The deputy leader of New Zealand\u2019s government has broken ranks with the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, decrying her refusal to drastically loosen the country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/11\/ardern-announces-new-zealand-will-reopen-schools-offices-and-restaurants-this-week\">lockdown rules<\/a> and immediately establish a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/may\/05\/australia-and-new-zealand-travel-bubble-coronavirus-safe-plan-to-reopen-border\">trans-Tasman travel \u201cbubble\u201d<\/a> with Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been in compulsory lockdown for far too long,\u201d said Winston Peters, who is the deputy prime minister and foreign minister, but is not a member of Ardern\u2019s Labour party.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/27\/new-zealand-winston-peters-jacinda-ardern-lift-covid-19-lockdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political kingmaker Winston Peters says nation has been in lockdown for \u2018too long\u2019 and calls for immediate move to the lowest level of restrictionsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe deputy leader of New Zealand\u2019s government&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"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":[41,1069,268,56,933,944,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-winston-peters","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\/18725","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\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18726,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18725\/revisions\/18726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}