{"id":34750,"date":"2021-08-04T09:42:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T00:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/04\/ardern-labour-popularity-stumbles-on-new-zealand-slow-road-to-vaccination"},"modified":"2021-08-04T09:42:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T00:42:47","slug":"arderns-popularity-stumbles-on-new-zealands-slow-road-to-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34750","title":{"rendered":"Ardern\u2019s popularity stumbles on New Zealand\u2019s slow road to vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polls this week suggest the glacial speed of the Covid vaccine rollout is starting to affect Labour\u2019s support, even as PM remains personally popular<\/p>\n<p>An unbeatable leader in times of crisis, New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern\u2019s soaring popularity has teetered on the country\u2019s slow road to vaccination.<\/p>\n<p>This week, polling in New Zealand indicated some of the gloss may be fading from the Ardern government\u2019s second term, which has enjoyed soaringly high popularity over the past year. The poll, conducted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newshub.co.nz\/home\/politics\/2021\/08\/act-s-david-seymour-overtakes-national-s-judith-collins-as-preferred-prime-minister-in-newshub-reid-research-poll.html\">Newshub\/Reid Research<\/a>, put Labour at 43%, down 9.7 percentage points. The results followed a similar trend line polling by TVNZ from May.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/04\/ardern-labour-popularity-stumbles-on-new-zealand-slow-road-to-vaccination\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polls this week suggest the glacial speed of the Covid vaccine rollout is starting to affect Labour\u2019s support, even as PM remains personally popularAn unbeatable leader in times of crisis, New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern\u2019s soaring popularity &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"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":[41,1066,268,56,565],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-vaccines-and-immunisation"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34750","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\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34752,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34750\/revisions\/34752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}