{"id":52047,"date":"2023-01-21T12:08:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T03:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/21\/chris-hipkins-profile-who-is-new-zealands-next-prime-minister-after-jacinda-ardern"},"modified":"2023-01-21T12:08:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T03:08:24","slug":"chris-hipkins-profile-who-is-new-zealands-next-prime-minister-after-jacinda-ardern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52047","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hipkins profile: who is New Zealand\u2019s next prime minister after Jacinda Ardern?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Chippy\u2019 weathered Covid pandemic, now faces new storms and Labour\u2019s flagging popularity ahead of 2023 election<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s incoming prime minister, Chris Hipkins, steered the country through the Covid pandemic. An experienced career politician with a \u201cfixer\u201d reputation, he has a new storm to navigate: reversing Labour\u2019s months-long polling slide and recapturing voters in the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/19\/jacinda-ardern-resigns-as-prime-minister-of-new-zealand\">Jacinda Ardern\u2019s shock departure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hipkins, 44, was the minister primarily charged with designing and implementing New Zealand\u2019s Covid response. It made him a household name for many New Zealanders \u2013 he was a regular fixture at daily press conferences alongside Ardern.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/21\/chris-hipkins-profile-who-is-new-zealands-next-prime-minister-after-jacinda-ardern\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Chippy\u2019 weathered Covid pandemic, now faces new storms and Labour\u2019s flagging popularity ahead of 2023 electionNew Zealand\u2019s incoming prime minister, Chris Hipkins, steered the country through the Covid pandemic. An experienced career politician with 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52047","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=52047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52048,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52047\/revisions\/52048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}