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New Zealand's Ardern wins 2nd term in landslide
Ardern's liberal Labour Party was also on target to win an outright majority of the seats in Parliament.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/1...nd-term-430008

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won a second term in office Saturday in an election landslide of historic proportions.

With most votes counted, Ardern’s liberal Labour Party was winning 49% of the vote compared to 27% for its main challenger, the conservative National Party.

Labour was on target to win an outright majority of the seats in Parliament, something that hasn’t happened since New Zealand implemented a proportional voting system 24 years ago.

Her popularity soared earlier this year after she led a successful effort to stamp out the coronavirus. There is currently no community spread of the virus in the nation of 5 million and people are no longer required to wear masks or social distance.

She became a role model for working mothers around the world, many of whom saw her as a counterpoint to President* Donald Trump. And she was praised for her handling of last year’s attack on two Christchurch mosques, when a white supremacist gunned down 51 Muslim worshippers.

She moved quickly to pass new laws banning the deadliest types of semi-automatic weapons.

Such a sensible country!

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Hopefully sanity and sensibility will be returning here soon!