{"id":23506,"date":"2020-10-06T20:17:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T11:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/06\/ardern-collins-new-zealand-party-leaders-clash-debate"},"modified":"2020-10-06T20:17:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T11:17:10","slug":"ardern-v-collins-new-zealand-party-leaders-clash-in-lively-but-muddled-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23506","title":{"rendered":"Ardern v Collins: New Zealand party leaders clash in lively but muddled debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rivals veered into parodies of themselves, with most analysts declaring incumbent the winner<\/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 leaders of New Zealand\u2019s two main political parties, Jacinda Ardern and Judith Collins, have clashed in a boisterous, energetic and at times muddled third debate before the election on 17 October.<\/p>\n<p>Ardern \u2013 the centre-left Labour leader and popular prime minister who is leading in the polls \u2013 was widely agreed to have won the debate over Collins, from the centre-right National party, but the pair often veered into parodies of themselves rather than engaging on the substance, analysts said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/06\/ardern-collins-new-zealand-party-leaders-clash-debate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rivals veered into parodies of themselves, with most analysts declaring incumbent the winnerCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe leaders of New Zealand\u2019s two main political parties, Jacinda Ardern and Judith Collins, have cla&#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":[41,1069,268,1700,56,1594,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-jacinda-ardern","category-judith-collins","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-election-2020","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\/23506","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=23506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23507,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23506\/revisions\/23507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}