{"id":59199,"date":"2023-10-14T19:04:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T10:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/14\/new-zealand-election-2023-results-national-party-labour-"},"modified":"2023-10-14T19:04:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T10:04:30","slug":"new-zealand-abandons-labour-and-shifts-to-the-right-as-country-votes-for-wholesale-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59199","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand abandons Labour and shifts to the right as country votes for wholesale change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Party once led by Jacinda Ardern suffers serious election defeat amid anger over cost of living and strict Covid policies<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand voters have delivered a forceful rejection of the Labour government as a surge in support for the National party delivered what analysts described as a \u201cbloodbath\u201d for the government and a new right-leaning era for politics in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The result marked a dramatic change in fortunes for the Labour party, which three years earlier \u2013 led by Jacinda Ardern &#8211; secured a historic mandate, but saw its support dwindle in the face of rising living costs and the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/14\/new-zealand-election-2023-results-national-party-labour-\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Party once led by Jacinda Ardern suffers serious election defeat amid anger over cost of living and strict Covid policiesNew Zealand voters have delivered a forceful rejection of the Labour government as a surge in support for the National party delive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[41,56,2941,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/59199","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59200,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59199\/revisions\/59200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}