New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks at an election night event at Auckland Town Hall in Auckland, New Zealand, on October 17. Picture: BLOOMBERG/MARK COOTE
Ardern, 40, won international plaudits for her response to the deadly shootings at two mosques in 2019, donning a headscarf as a mark of respect as she mourned with the Muslim community. This year, she’s demonstrated her steel in tackling the coronavirus pandemic, enacting one of the world’s strictest lockdowns to crush community transmission.
Supporters want Ardern to push harder on reforms such as tackling inequality and boosting incomes after she failed to deliver on some key promises in her first term. She ditched plans for a capital-gains tax that might have addressed the widening gap between rich and poor, while a programme to build tens of thousands of new homes to help fix a housing crisis fell well short of goals.
Her focus will be on the enormous economic and social challenges ahead as New Zealand charts a recovery from recession. But she has ruled out big tax reforms to address wealth inequality, and given no indication since her victory that she intends to be more proactive on issues such as poverty and homelessness.
None. She is everything the MYANC does not want to be.
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