{"id":20866,"date":"2020-07-23T02:58:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T17:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/22\/two-sex-scandals-in-one-week-new-zealand-faces-reckoning-over-mps-behaviour"},"modified":"2020-07-23T02:58:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T17:58:21","slug":"two-sex-scandals-in-a-week-new-zealand-faces-reckoning-over-mps-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20866","title":{"rendered":"Two sex scandals in a week: New Zealand faces reckoning over MPs&#8217; behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exits of an MP and a minister might signal a new attitude in a nation where politicians\u2019 private lives have traditionally been off-limits<\/p>\n<p>After a New Zealand MP quit and a minister was fired in successive days over allegations of sexual misconduct or inappropriate relationships, New Zealand\u2019s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, was asked by a reporter whether it was \u201copen season\u201d on any member of parliament who had \u201cever had an affair\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to get drawn into hypotheticals,\u201d Ardern replied as she faced questions about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/22\/jacinda-ardern-sacks-immigration-minister-over-year-long-affair-with-staff-member\">sacking of <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/22\/jacinda-ardern-sacks-immigration-minister-over-year-long-affair-with-staff-member\">Iain Lees-Galloway<\/a>, her minister of workplace relations and safety, over his workplace relationship with a former staffer in his office.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/22\/two-sex-scandals-in-one-week-new-zealand-faces-reckoning-over-mps-behaviour\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exits of an MP and a minister might signal a new attitude in a nation where politicians\u2019 private lives have traditionally been off-limitsAfter a New Zealand MP quit and a minister was fired in successive days over allegations of sexual misconduct or in&#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":[41,268,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","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\/20866","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=20866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20867,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20866\/revisions\/20867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}