{"id":24347,"date":"2020-11-01T13:02:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T04:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/01\/new-zealands-labour-and-greens-formally-sign-cooperation-deal"},"modified":"2020-11-01T13:02:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T04:02:45","slug":"new-zealands-labour-and-greens-formally-sign-cooperation-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24347","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand&#8217;s Labour and Greens formally sign &#8216;cooperation&#8217; deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ardern says agreement allows parties to \u2018take their own positions\u2019 and stops short of a coalition<\/p>\n<p>Jacinda Ardern\u2019s Labour party has signed a \u201ccooperation\u201d agreement with the Green party, the prime minister has said, saying she hopes the agreement will be an extra level of stability for her second term in government.<\/p>\n<p>The Labour party scored a landslide victory in the 17 October poll, securing a parliamentary majority in its own right. However, Ardern spent the last fortnight negotiating with the Greens, and on Sunday signed a deal that gives the left-leaning party, which is outspoken on environmental and social justice issues, two ministries outside of cabinet.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/01\/new-zealands-labour-and-greens-formally-sign-cooperation-deal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ardern says agreement allows parties to \u2018take their own positions\u2019 and stops short of a coalitionJacinda Ardern\u2019s Labour party has signed a \u201ccooperation\u201d agreement with the Green party, the prime minister has said, saying she hopes the agreement will b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1661,"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":[41,1737,268,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-green-party","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","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\/24347","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\/1661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24348,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24347\/revisions\/24348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}