{"id":38805,"date":"2021-11-11T09:01:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T00:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/11\/jacinda-arderns-popularity-plunges-as-new-zealand-reckons-with-new-era-of-endemic-covid"},"modified":"2021-11-11T09:01:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T00:01:31","slug":"jacinda-arderns-popularity-plunges-as-new-zealand-reckons-with-new-era-of-endemic-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38805","title":{"rendered":"Jacinda Ardern\u2019s popularity plunges as New Zealand reckons with new era of endemic Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drop in support for prime minister comes amid recent changes in country\u2019s pandemic fortunes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Prime minister Jacinda Ardern\u2019s popularity has plummeted in two new polls, as New Zealand struggles to contain a Delta outbreak and transitions to a new era of endemic Covid.<\/p>\n<p>The Ardern-led Labour party dropped five points to 41% over the past months, according to the Talbot Mills Research poll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/politics\/covid-19-delta-outbreak-labour-down-in-two-polls-as-support-crumbles\/PXOYMDH7HLCVUPP5IN46M5RHEU\/\">published by the New Zealand Herald<\/a> on Thursday. While that result still places it firmly ahead of the opposition National party, it represent\u2019s Labour\u2019s worst polling result in more than a year, and since before Covid-19 reached New Zealand. The result was echoed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxpayers.org.nz\/taxpayers_union_curia_poll_november_2021\">Curia polling<\/a> commissioned by lobby group the Taxpayer\u2019s Union, which showed Labour support had dropped six points to 39%, with National up four points to 26%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/11\/jacinda-arderns-popularity-plunges-as-new-zealand-reckons-with-new-era-of-endemic-covid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drop in support for prime minister comes amid recent changes in country\u2019s pandemic fortunesSee all our coronavirus coveragePrime minister Jacinda Ardern\u2019s popularity has plummeted in two new polls, as New Zealand struggles to contain a Delta outbreak a&#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":[41,1066,268,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","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\/38805","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=38805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38806,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38805\/revisions\/38806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}