{"id":59223,"date":"2023-10-16T03:00:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/15\/new-zealand-labour-shed-votes-to-the-right-but-also-the-left-the-price-of-a-progressive-policy-bonfire"},"modified":"2023-10-16T03:00:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T18:00:18","slug":"new-zealand-labour-shed-votes-to-the-right-but-also-the-left-the-price-of-a-progressive-policy-bonfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59223","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Labour shed votes to the right but also the left \u2013 the price of a progressive policy bonfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The party\u2019s supporters feel like it got a kicking from everyone. After a dire result, analysts pointed to its inability to meet its lofty aspirations<\/p>\n<p>It was an assessment with a distinctly New Zealand flavour. \u201cAt the end of the day, there\u2019s one unavoidable reality,\u201d said Chris Hipkins, the defeated Labour prime minister, speaking to reporters after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/14\/new-zealand-election-2023-results-national-party-labour-\">conceded the country\u2019s election<\/a> on Saturday. \u201cWe lost because not enough people voted for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But that was only part of it. Hipkins\u2019 ruling, centre-left Labour party had crashed from the historic highs of its 2020 election result, in which it won 50% of the vote, to a dismal 27% on Saturday, nearly halving its seats in parliament. However, the punishing loss was not only a clear defeat by the right-leaning parties that will form the next government \u2013 the size and shape of which will be determined when a final vote tally is announced on 3 November; the blows also came from Labour\u2019s left.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/15\/new-zealand-labour-shed-votes-to-the-right-but-also-the-left-the-price-of-a-progressive-policy-bonfire\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The party\u2019s supporters feel like it got a kicking from everyone. After a dire result, analysts pointed to its inability to meet its lofty aspirationsIt was an assessment with a distinctly New Zealand flavour. \u201cAt the end of the day, there\u2019s one unavoid&#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":[41,1054,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/59223","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=59223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59224,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59223\/revisions\/59224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}