Jacinda Ardern wins landslide re-election in New Zealand vote
If her party wins more than half the seats, Ardern could form the first single-party government under the current system
17 October 2020 - 12:28
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Labor Party won a landslide victory in New Zealand’s general election on Saturday as voters rewarded her for a decisive response to coronavirus in the country.
The mandate means Ardern, 40, could form the first single-party government in decades, and face the challenge of delivering on the progressive transformation she promised but failed to deliver in her first term, where Labour shared power with a nationalist party...
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