{"id":52026,"date":"2023-01-20T13:56:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T04:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/20\/who-is-in-the-running-to-replace-jacinda-ardern-new-zealand-nz-election-pm-prime-minister"},"modified":"2023-01-20T13:56:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T04:56:50","slug":"who-is-in-the-running-to-replace-jacinda-ardern-as-new-zealand-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52026","title":{"rendered":"Who is in the running to replace Jacinda Ardern as New Zealand PM?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand Labour party will pick a new leader on Sunday, after Ardern\u2019s shock resignation. Who are the top contenders?<\/p>\n<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/19\/jacinda-ardern-resigns-as-prime-minister-of-new-zealand\">shock resignation of Jacinda Ardern<\/a> on Thursday, the New Zealand Labour party is now racing to find her replacement, a politician who will be tasked with leading the country \u2013 and the party \u2013 into the October election.<\/p>\n<p>Their choices represent a potential crossroads for the party \u2013 and for New Zealand\u2019s perception on the world stage, where it has built an outsize reputation for progressive leadership. Ardern will be a hard act to follow.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/20\/who-is-in-the-running-to-replace-jacinda-ardern-new-zealand-nz-election-pm-prime-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand Labour party will pick a new leader on Sunday, after Ardern\u2019s shock resignation. Who are the top contenders?With the shock resignation of Jacinda Ardern on Thursday, the New Zealand Labour party is now racing to find her replacement, a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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":[41,268,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","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\/52026","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52027,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52026\/revisions\/52027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}