Jacinda Ardern

Jacinda Ardern, citing burnout, resigned as Prime Minister of New Zealand on Thursday after nearly six years on the job.

With a [new mandate](https://www.ft.com/content/ccfc8195-aa97-4845-b16b-4f0762a168ed), Ardern appointed eight women, five indigenous Maori ministers, and a gay deputy prime minister. “We are living in an increasingly polarized world, a place where more and more people have lost the ability to see one another’s point of view. Ardern also followed in the rare footsteps of Pakistan’s late Prime Minister Beneazir Bhutto, when she [gave birth](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-44568537) while in office in 2018. Now I’m asking you to do everything you can to protect all of us. I hope that this election, New Zealand has shown that this is not who we are. He is a criminal. He is a terrorist. “It takes courage and strength to be empathetic, and I’m very proudly an empathetic and compassionate leader. That she doesn’t have any sense of what girls can or can’t do. And that you can be your own kind of leader – one who knows when it’s time to go.” “I hope that she doesn’t feel any limitations. We give all that we can for as long as we can, and then it’s time.”

By Biodun Busari. Jacinda Ardern has revealed she will resign as the prime minister of New Zealand in a shocking announcement on Thursday.

But it’s also had its challenges – among an agenda focused on housing, child poverty and climate change, we encountered a … And for me, it’s time,” she said. It’s that simple,” Ardern said.

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is quitting after a tumultuous five years that shot her to global stardom as a progressive leader but left her ...

Ardern won a second term by a landslide in October 2020, snatching a clear parliamentary majority as she rode a wave of “Jacindamania” popularity underpinned by her handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. The stress has been evident in recent months — Ardern showed a rare lapse of poise when she was unwittingly caught on microphone calling an opposition politician an “arrogant prick”. Ardern won accolades in September 2018 when she was photographed kissing and bouncing her then three-month-old daughter, Neve, inside the hall of the United Nations General Assembly — the first such appearance by a baby in the organisation’s history.

Nigeria and the rest of the world woke up to the news that Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand, had resigned. In an emotional.

“New Zealand was able to keep the case count and number of deaths low with a COVID-19-related mortality rate of 4 per 1 million, the lowest rate of the 37 that counted in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries,” Baker, Wilson, and Anglemyer said in 2020 about the exceptional result of keeping the coronavirus spread and death rate at a very low rate. Being young in age and heart almost makes it inevitable for her to keep to her demographics. Meanwhile, Stanley Nwani, a senior economics lecturer at the Lagos Business School, in a telephone conversation with BusinessDay said that he doesn’t expect Prime Minister Jacinta Ardern’s resignation to worsen the already skewed bilateral trade relationship with New Zealand. Ardern, in a swift response, not only mourned with the country, but also wore a hijab to stand in solidarity with the Muslim community. In total, New Zealand recorded the lowest mortality rate of 25 percent, making it the first country to allow people to return to schools, workplaces, and events with little or no restrictions. She held up a mirror and asked the country’s populace to examine themselves. Relying on her empathy skills and communication competencies, Ardern was able to connect with her followers. In an emotional speech, New Zealand’s youngest prime minister, and the third woman after Helen Clark to take charge of the country’s political and economic affairs, said she couldn’t continue in that position anymore. According to the former Labour Party leader, she complained of lacking motivation and needed time away from the drama of politicking. “In the year 2020, Ardern faced the challenge of leading New Zealand through the coronavirus disease’s global pandemic (Covid-19). The only interesting angle you will find is that after going on six years of some big challenges, that I am human,” she added. We give all that we can for as long as we can, and then it’s time.

With her charm and leadership philosophy rooted in kindness, the New Zealand prime minister has earned widespread popularity. Many of her fans are women, who ...

Despite her denials, Ardern's move can also be seen as a canny decision to save her party and avoid a personally humiliating defeat in the upcoming election as the incumbent PM. She talked about how she wished to spend more time with her family as they had "sacrificed the most out of all of us". We give all that we can, for as long as we can, and then it's time," Ardern said, her voice faltering. Ardern noted in her speech on Thursday the "constant and weighty" decisions she faced. But I am confident with all of the support I'm very lucky to have, we will absolutely make it work," she told reporters at the time. With her charm and leadership philosophy rooted in kindness, the New Zealand prime minister has earned widespread popularity.

When Jacinda Ardern announced she was stepping down as prime minister of New Zealand, she said didn't have “enough in the tank” to keep going or seek ...

In a report by Slack Technologies Inc.’s Future Forum [released in October](https://futureforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Future-Forum-Pulse-Report-Fall-2022.pdf), female workers were 32% more likely to experience burnout than their male counterparts. Plenty of working women, particularly those who have lived through the pandemic, know that breaking point well.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden, who became a global icon of the left and exemplified a new style of leadership, ...

There’s a greater weight of responsibility, a greater vulnerability amongst the people, and so in many ways, I think that will be what sticks with me,” she said. New Zealand Opposition Leader Christopher Luxon said Ardern had been a strong ambassador for the country on the world stage. Ardern was [widely praised for her empathy](/article/f80e79bb61ba460695b308c5552f83ef) with survivors and New Zealand’s wider Muslim community in the aftermath. “She has demonstrated that empathy and insight are powerful leadership qualities,” Albanese tweeted. “Her treatment, the pile on, in the last few months has been disgraceful and embarrassing,” wrote actor Sam Neill on Twitter. “All the bullies, the misogynists, the aggrieved. But she was [forced to abandon](/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-new-zealand-auckland-829fc4cd04e68e9e3b264ac03418aeaf) that zero-tolerance strategy as more contagious variants spread and vaccines became widely available. [Just 37 when she became leader](/article/9387e2bf316b41f5906769cc35bcd340), Ardern was praised around the world for her handling of the nation’s worst-ever mass shooting and the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic. Her approach to the pandemic earned the ire of U.S. President Donald Trump, and she pushed back against wildly exaggerated claims from Trump about the spread of COVID-19 after he said there was a massive outbreak and “It’s over for New Zealand. Ardern became an inspiration to women around the world after first winning the top job in 2017. But she faced mounting political pressures at home and a level of vitriol from some that hadn’t been experienced by previous New Zealand leaders.

Ardern says she slept soundly 'for the first time in a long time,' as colleagues in New Zealand deplore her treatment as prime minister.

Their caucus will meet on Sunday to vote on candidates for a new leader. And for me, it’s time,” she said. In her resignation announcement on Thursday, Ardern was asked how threats to her safety had played into her decision. The protests, coupled with increased threats and abuse against the prime minister and other MPs, prompted New Zealand’s typically open and accessible parliament to up security measures. While police could not determine motives for every individual threat, documents they released showed anti-vaccination sentiment was a driving force of a number of threats, and opposition to legislation to regulate firearms after the 15 March mass shooting in Christchurch was another factor. “Our society could now usefully reflect on whether it wants to continue to tolerate the excessive polarisation which is making politics an increasingly unattractive calling.”

New Zealand's leader says she has a "sense of relief" as her party prepares to anoint a successor.

Mr Hipkins, 44, led the government's response to the pandemic after being appointed minister for Covid-19 in November 2020. Other potential candidates include Minister of Justice Kiri Allan, 39. She will step down by 7 February and Labour Party MPs will hold a leadership vote on Sunday.

Political commentators say there are several current ministers, including Kiri Allan and Chris Hipkins, who are potential candidates for the top job.

In December, the government announced [an inquiry](https://apnews.com/article/health-business-new-zealand-covid-economy-ed4548f52efc3740b9bd0cd19a9e40cc) into its own response. “Whoever it is that takes over on Sunday,” Shaw says, “this person’s job is to minimize the loss and then … Those issues mean that whoever becomes the next Prime Minister may not be in office long, with some experts predicting a backlash against the center-left Labour Party. [Ukraine Yellow Kitchen Photo](https://time.com/6247839/ukraine-yellow-kitchen-photo-dnipro/?utm_source=roundup&utm_campaign=20230105) [Toll of Working for Amazon](https://time.com/6248340/amazon-injuries-survey-labor-osha/?utm_source=roundup&utm_campaign=20230105) “I think he’s too closely associated with the COVID response,” says Shaw. But his ties to the pandemic response may also be problematic, as some in New Zealand have been intensely critical of the strict approach. The country won praise for its quick response and elimination strategy—which relied heavily on scientific advice and which, boosted by clear communication, meant New Zealand had one of the lowest COVID-19 mortality rates in the world. That includes Kiri Allan, the minister for justice, who if elected would become the country’s first openly gay leader and its first prime minister of Māori descent. “I don’t know that Allan would want to put herself forward for that.” They’ll have to contend with a slew of domestic issues that had taken a toll on Ardern’s domestic popularity, like soaring house prices and inflation. But Robertson has ruled himself out, as has deputy party leader Kelvin Davis.