{"id":59197,"date":"2023-10-14T20:58:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T11:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/14\/from-selling-deodorant-to-running-the-country-new-zealands-new-pm-christopher-luxon"},"modified":"2023-10-14T20:58:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T11:58:02","slug":"from-selling-deodorant-to-running-the-country-new-zealands-new-pm-christopher-luxon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59197","title":{"rendered":"From selling deodorant to running the country: New Zealand\u2019s new PM, Christopher Luxon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He is a former Air NZ chief executive, millionaire and committed Christian, but Luxon remains a bit of an enigma<\/p>\n<p>He sold deodorant and ice-cream, and ran an airline, as a top corporate executive who relished \u201cturnaround jobs\u201d for flagging businesses. On Saturday, as New Zealand\u2019s election results <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/14\/new-zealand-election-2023-results-national-party-labour-\">designated Christopher Luxon prime minister<\/a> in waiting, he appears to have found success with his sales pitch to voters: that they should choose his once ailing centre-right National party to steer the country out of a cost of living crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe listened to the people needing interest rates to come down so they can pay their mortgages,\u201d Luxon told party faithful in his victory speech on Saturday. \u201cWe listened to the people that need tax relief to help pay for the grocery bills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/14\/from-selling-deodorant-to-running-the-country-new-zealands-new-pm-christopher-luxon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is a former Air NZ chief executive, millionaire and committed Christian, but Luxon remains a bit of an enigmaHe sold deodorant and ice-cream, and ran an airline, as a top corporate executive who relished \u201cturnaround jobs\u201d for flagging businesses. On&#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":[41,2765,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-christopher-luxon","category-new-zealand","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\/59197","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=59197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59198,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59197\/revisions\/59198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}