{"id":39349,"date":"2021-11-30T12:15:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T03:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/30\/new-zealands-national-party-anoints-ex-airline-boss-chris-luxon-as-leader"},"modified":"2021-11-30T12:15:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T03:15:28","slug":"new-zealands-national-party-anoints-ex-airline-boss-chris-luxon-as-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39349","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s National party anoints ex-airline boss Chris Luxon as leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luxon, who has spent just a year in parliament, will be the party\u2019s fifth leader in as many years after he replaced Judith Collins<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s opposition has announced a new leader, former airline boss Christopher Luxon, after its leader Judith Collins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/25\/new-zealand-opposition-leader-judith-collins-ousted-after-move-to-demote-rival-backfires\">flamed out of the role<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>The National party emerged from its caucus meeting on Tuesday to announce Luxon, a political novice and former Air New Zealand chief executive, would be taking the party\u2019s helm. He will be National\u2019s fifth leader in as many years, and will work alongside deputy Nicola Willis. The party was forced into a new leadership vote last week, after leader Judith Collins self-destructed in an ill-fated attempt to take down political rival Simon Bridges.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/30\/new-zealands-national-party-anoints-ex-airline-boss-chris-luxon-as-leader\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luxon, who has spent just a year in parliament, will be the party\u2019s fifth leader in as many years after he replaced Judith CollinsNew Zealand\u2019s opposition has announced a new leader, former airline boss Christopher Luxon, after its leader Judith Collin&#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":[41,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","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\/39349","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=39349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39350,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39349\/revisions\/39350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}