{"id":56196,"date":"2023-06-24T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T20:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/24\/new-zealand-politics-after-jacinda-ardern"},"modified":"2023-06-24T05:00:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T20:00:48","slug":"domestic-squabbling-and-two-men-called-chris-whats-next-for-new-zealand-politics-after-jacinda-ardern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56196","title":{"rendered":"Domestic squabbling and two men called Chris: what\u2019s next for New Zealand politics after Jacinda Ardern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Jacindamania circus leaves town, international attention that sought to make the country a model for western liberal democracy has started to wane<\/p>\n<p>Whether Jacinda Ardern was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/By_4s3VA8FM\/?hl=en\">baking a cake<\/a>, getting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/16\/jacinda-ardern-rejected-from-cafe-at-coronavirus-capacity\">turned away from a full cafe<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/sep\/25\/jacinda-ardern-makes-history-with-baby-neve-at-un-general-assembly\">taking her baby to work<\/a>, her every move as New Zealand\u2019s prime minister seemed to prompt breathless global coverage. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/08\/opinion\/sunday\/jacinda-ardern-new-zealand-prime-minister.html\">Jacinda rules<\/a>,\u201d declared a headline on the front of the New York Times opinion section. Stephen Colbert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DUPo62ouU84\">visited her at home<\/a>. Meghan and Harry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/21\/jacinda-ardern-learned-she-was-in-new-meghan-and-harry-series-the-day-of-trailer-release\">clamoured to work with her<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But since Ardern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/19\/jacinda-ardern-resigns-as-prime-minister-of-new-zealand\">quit in January<\/a> \u2013 citing burnout after more than five turbulent years as leader \u2013 the international attention that often sought to make New Zealand a model for western liberal democracy has started to wane. What remains as the circus leaves town is perhaps a more realistic picture of a small country facing the same problems that have long confronted it \u2013 but without a need to explain them in terms the rest of the world can understand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/24\/new-zealand-politics-after-jacinda-ardern\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Jacindamania circus leaves town, international attention that sought to make the country a model for western liberal democracy has started to waneWhether Jacinda Ardern was baking a cake, getting turned away from a full cafe or taking her baby t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"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":[41,2832,2765,268,56,2941,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-chris-hipkins","category-christopher-luxon","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-election-2023","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\/56196","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\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56197,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56196\/revisions\/56197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}