{"id":39362,"date":"2021-11-30T13:42:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T04:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/30\/who-is-new-zealands-new-opposition-leader-christopher-luxon"},"modified":"2021-11-30T13:42:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T04:42:42","slug":"who-is-new-zealands-new-opposition-leader-christopher-luxon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39362","title":{"rendered":"Who is New Zealand\u2019s new opposition leader Christopher Luxon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Air New Zealand boss is a relative newcomer to politics but has consistently registered in \u2018preferred prime minister\u2019 polling<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand has a new leader for its opposition, and \u2013 the party hopes \u2013 a new challenger to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/18\/arderns-covid-lockdown-finds-favour-as-new-zealand-watches-sydneys-delta-disaster\">enduring popularity of Labour\u2019s Jacinda Ardern<\/a>. The National party is pinning its hopes on Christopher Luxon, a former airline boss and a teetotaller, country music fan, waterskier, relative political unknown and \u2013 somewhat unusually for New Zealand politics \u2013 an evangelical Christian.<\/p>\n<p>Luxon is the latest in a string of National leaders and will be tasked with uniting a party long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/27\/the-era-of-judith-crusher-collins-ends-in-a-blaze-of-fury\">plagued by poor polling, minor scandals and political infighting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/30\/who-is-new-zealands-new-opposition-leader-christopher-luxon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Air New Zealand boss is a relative newcomer to politics but has consistently registered in \u2018preferred prime minister\u2019 pollingNew Zealand has a new leader for its opposition, and \u2013 the party hopes \u2013 a new challenger to the enduring 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":[41,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39362","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\/39362","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=39362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39363,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39362\/revisions\/39363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}