{"id":58495,"date":"2023-09-19T09:19:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T00:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/19\/new-zealand-election-2023-where-is-jacinda-ardern-why-absent-campaign"},"modified":"2023-09-19T09:19:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T00:19:52","slug":"why-is-jacinda-ardern-absent-from-new-zealand-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58495","title":{"rendered":"Why is Jacinda Ardern absent from New Zealand election campaign?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former PM became \u2018lighting rod for discontent\u2019 among some voters as analysts say her time in office associated with Covid fallout<\/p>\n<p>As the final month of campaigning in New Zealand\u2019s election begins, one figure is noticeably absent for observers abroad: former prime minister Jacinda Ardern.<\/p>\n<p>Ardern dominated political life in New Zealand for five years, until her shock <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/19\/jacinda-ardern-resigns-as-prime-minister-of-new-zealand\">resignation in January 2023.<\/a> Now, as she wrote on Instagram in April, she is \u201chelpfully\u201d at Harvard during New Zealand\u2019s election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Ardern was elected in 2017 on a wave of Jacindamania and her extremely high popularity endured, carrying the Labour party under her leadership to a historic win in 2020. She enjoyed stratospheric popularity abroad too \u2013 featuring on the cover of Vogue and as a favourite guest of late-night talkshows in the US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/19\/new-zealand-election-2023-where-is-jacinda-ardern-why-absent-campaign\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former PM became \u2018lighting rod for discontent\u2019 among some voters as analysts say her time in office associated with Covid falloutAs the final month of campaigning in New Zealand\u2019s election begins, one figure is noticeably absent for observers abroad: f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3833,"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":[41,268,56,2941,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-election-2023","category-new-zealand-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58495","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\/3833"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58496,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58495\/revisions\/58496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}