{"id":23963,"date":"2020-10-19T11:13:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T02:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/19\/why-new-zealand-rejected-populist-ideas-other-nations-have-embraced"},"modified":"2020-10-19T11:13:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T02:13:34","slug":"why-new-zealand-rejected-populist-ideas-other-nations-have-embraced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23963","title":{"rendered":"Why New Zealand rejected populist ideas other nations have embraced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Labour\u2019s historic win delivered Ardern a second term while voters punished politicians who embraced populism <\/p>\n

Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand\u2019s Labour prime minister who was returned to power for a second term with a commanding majority, has often been hailed internationally as a foil to global surges in right-wing movements and the rise of strongmen such as Donald Trump and Brazil\u2019s leader, Jair Bolsonaro.<\/p>\n

But the historic victory of Ardern\u2019s centre-left party on polling day \u2013 its best result in five decades, winning 64 of parliament\u2019s 120 seats <\/a>\u2013 was not the only measure by which New Zealand bucked global trends in its vote. The public also rejected some political hopefuls\u2019 rallying cries to populism, conspiracy theories and scepticism about Covid-19.<\/p>\n

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Labour\u2019s historic win delivered Ardern a second term while voters punished politicians who embraced populism Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand\u2019s Labour prime minister who was returned to power for a second term with a commanding majority, has often been hail…<\/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":[41,268,1054,619,56,1594,933,944],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-labour-party","category-national-party","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-election-2020","category-new-zealand-politics","category-winston-peters"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23963","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=23963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23964,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23963\/revisions\/23964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}