{"id":21535,"date":"2020-08-09T16:36:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T07:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/09\/can-anything-stop-the-high-flying-jacinda-ardern"},"modified":"2020-08-09T16:36:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T07:36:47","slug":"jacinda-ardern-pushes-stability-over-change-in-new-zealands-covid-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21535","title":{"rendered":"Jacinda Ardern pushes stability over change in New Zealand&#8217;s &#8216;Covid election&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prime minister is pitching a mix of steady leadership and big-spending policies to voters after a world-leading coronavirus response <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/09\/global-covid-report-us-5m-cases-new-zealand-100-days-without-local-transmission\">Covid report: New Zealand goes 100 days without local transmission<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On her first public outing since launching her party\u2019s election campaign the day before, New Zealand\u2019s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, spent Sunday morning at a farmers\u2019 market in central Auckland where she walked among friends, posed for selfies and did her vegetable shopping.<\/p>\n<p>Ardern is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/27\/jacinda-arderns-labour-party-gets-strongest-results-yet-in-poll\">riding high in the polls<\/a> \u2013 as is the Labour party \u2013 on the back of her stewardship of the country\u2019s Covid-19 response. Her strong position has been aided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/25\/new-zealand-opposition-in-disarray-as-election-nears-can-crusher-collins-fix-it\">troubles within the opposition National party<\/a>, which is heading into September\u2019s election with its third leader in as many months.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/09\/can-anything-stop-the-high-flying-jacinda-ardern\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prime minister is pitching a mix of steady leadership and big-spending policies to voters after a world-leading coronavirus response Covid report: New Zealand goes 100 days without local transmission On her first public outing since launching her p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1499,"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":[41,268,619,56,1594,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-national-party","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-election-2020","category-new-zealand-politics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21535","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\/1499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21536,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21535\/revisions\/21536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}