{"id":23892,"date":"2020-10-17T11:32:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T02:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/17\/new-zealand-election-voters-head-to-the-polls-as-ardern-collins-call-halt-to-campaign"},"modified":"2020-10-17T11:32:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T02:32:59","slug":"new-zealand-election-voters-head-to-the-polls-as-ardern-collins-call-halt-to-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23892","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand election: voters head to the polls as Ardern, Collins call halt to campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Election results expected to come out quickly, with many advance votes already cast<\/p>\n<p>New Zealanders are heading to the polls today in a general election that could see the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, strengthen her left-of-centre hold on government or socially sonservative Judith Collins installed after only three months as opposition leader.<\/p>\n<p>Labour party leader Ardern and National party chief Collins are the faces of the election to form the country\u2019s 53rd parliament, in essence a pandemic-focused referendum on Ardern\u2019s three-year term.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/17\/new-zealand-election-voters-head-to-the-polls-as-ardern-collins-call-halt-to-campaign\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election results expected to come out quickly, with many advance votes already castNew Zealanders are heading to the polls today in a general election that could see the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, strengthen her left-of-centre hold on government o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":660,"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":[41,268,1700,56,1594,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/23892","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\/660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23903,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23892\/revisions\/23903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}