{"id":52058,"date":"2023-01-22T11:41:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T02:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/22\/new-zealand-labour-caucus-votes-in-chris-hipkins-to-succeed-jacinda-ardern"},"modified":"2023-01-22T11:41:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T02:41:39","slug":"new-zealand-chris-hipkins-taking-over-from-jacinda-ardern-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52058","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand: Chris Hipkins taking over from Jacinda Ardern on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sole nominee secures Labour endorsement for prime minister, with Carmel Sepuloni as deputy, and incumbent\u2019s last engagements on Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>Chris Hipkins will be New Zealand\u2019s next prime minister following a formal vote that endorsed him as Jacinda Ardern\u2019s successor after her shock resignation on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand will also swear in its first ever Pasifika deputy prime minister, with social development minister Carmel Sepuloni, who is of Tongan and Samoan descent, to take the role.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/22\/new-zealand-labour-caucus-votes-in-chris-hipkins-to-succeed-jacinda-ardern\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sole nominee secures Labour endorsement for prime minister, with Carmel Sepuloni as deputy, and incumbent\u2019s last engagements on TuesdayChris Hipkins will be New Zealand\u2019s next prime minister following a formal vote that endorsed him as Jacinda Ardern\u2019s&#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":[41,268,1054,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-labour-party","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\/52058","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=52058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52059,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52058\/revisions\/52059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}