{"id":37822,"date":"2021-10-09T03:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/09\/new-zealand-opposition-leader-judith-collins-struggle-for-relevance"},"modified":"2021-10-09T03:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T18:00:10","slug":"new-zealand-opposition-leader-judith-collins-struggle-for-relevance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37822","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand opposition leader Judith Collins\u2019 struggle for relevance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Routinely outshone in the polls by Jacinda Ardern, Collins now faces a challenge from a rival right-wing party<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are three ways in which opposition leaders end being opposition leaders,\u201d the National party\u2019s leader, Judith Collins, says: \u201cone, they give up \u2013 well, that\u2019s not happening. Two, they get rolled \u2013 that\u2019s not happening, and three, they become prime minister. That\u2019s the one I\u2019m after.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Collins may be resolute in her desire to bag the country\u2019s top leadership role, but the opposition\u2019s dismal ratings are hard to ignore. Recent polls show the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roymorgan.com\/findings\/8809-nz-national-voting-intention-september-2021-202110040446\">party\u2019s ratings have slumped to 23%<\/a>, Collin\u2019s preferred prime minister ranking is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/one-news\/new-zealand\/david-seymour-overtakes-judith-collins-in-preferred-pm-rankings-1news-colmar-brunton-poll\">trailing that of prime minister Jacinda Ardern<\/a> by 39 points, and the leader of the smaller rival right-wing Act party has overtaken her in the popularity contest.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/09\/new-zealand-opposition-leader-judith-collins-struggle-for-relevance\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Routinely outshone in the polls by Jacinda Ardern, Collins now faces a challenge from a rival right-wing party\u201cThere are three ways in which opposition leaders end being opposition leaders,\u201d the National party\u2019s leader, Judith Collins, says: \u201cone, they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[41,1700,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-judith-collins","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37822","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37823,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37822\/revisions\/37823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}