2024-01-06 15:15:56
SPITTING IMAGE – She distributed the soup and, 10 years later, ended up leading a country, but in between, there was Tony Blair, the Young Global Leaders (YGL) and a political rise even more meteoric than the hunt for anaerobic digestion cow farts. Since she was 17, the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, has navigated between Labor, young socialists and the British Prime Minister’s office. From New Zealand to Davos, his path is strewn with successes, syringes and a cascade of broken promises. Yet, even while juggling political crises, climate controversies and vaccinations, Arden knew how to keep things warm… until a microphone went off at the wrong time!
Jacinda Ardern joined the New Zealand Labor Party at age 17, while studying communications. “It was only much later that I realized that politics was a way to change the things I saw around me”. Despite her young age, she began working in Wellington for Phil Goff, then Foreign Minister (now New Zealand High Commissioner to the United Kingdom), and Helen Clark, Prime Minister from 1999 to 2008. In 2003, Arden becomes vice-president of Young Labor.
From the soup kitchen to Tony Blair without much self-esteem
But the Hamilton (Waikato) native is keen to travel. She flew to New York in 2006 and worked for six months in a soup kitchen before joining an association defending workers’ rights. “I wanted to live abroad. I wanted to have this time and experience abroad. I was doing amazing volunteer work that I loved”, she says. Soon, British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s office reported a vacancy for an advisor in London. Jacinda Ardern applies. “I was completely drained” more “it was totally pragmatic”. After a telephone interview, “I accepted this job”despite a “real dilemma regarding Tony Blair”this follower of the Davos forum, fervent defender of vaccination campaigns and the use of new technologies in the fight against the pandemic, who dragged the United Kingdom into a war in Iraq in 2003 by blatantly lying.
The New Zealander does not work closely with the British Prime Minister. “The office is huge (…). We were one unit among others (…) I worked alongside small businesses, trying to make their lives easier”. Jacinda Ardern took advantage of Tony Blair’s presence at an event in New Zealand a few years later to ask him what he “would have done differently”knowing that the truth about Iraq was now known to everyone. “Would you have gone to war?”she asked him. “I would have prepared to stay there longer”he replied…
Jacinda Ardern left London and, in 2008, became president of the International Union of Socialist Youth. She returned to New Zealand and was quickly asked by her party to campaign and become an MP for her native region, the Waikato. She lost these elections but her party won enough seats and, thanks to her 20th position on her list, became a deputy. A common practice in New Zealand’s mixed member proportional electoral system, where voters cast two votes: one for the party of their choice, the other for their local candidate.
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Ardern becomes, at 28, the youngest member of Parliament. The Labor Party appointed her as spokesperson for youth and deputy spokesperson for youth justice. She retained her seat until 2017 despite two electoral failures in 2011 and 2014.
Former advisor to Tony Blair’s cabinet, vice-president of Young Labor, president of the International Union of Socialist Youth and MP, does Jacinda Ardern, despite three electoral defeats, have the potential to lead New Zealand? In any case, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and its founder, Klaus Schwab, quickly became interested in this profile, as untypical of Wellington as it is typical of Young Global Leaders. In 2014, Ardern was selected and graduated by this structure, which “infiltrates” governments around the world and chooses the leaders of tomorrow.
In the meantime, Jacinda Ardern still has a way to go. Starting with winning an election! Her first victory finally came in 2017. She was elected MP in the constituency of Mount Albert, Auckland. This is the beginning of his rise. Her popularity during these primaries allowed her to be elected vice-president of the Labor Party. She was then 36 years old and, once again, broke a record for precocity by accessing this position.
His rise was then meteoric. In the same year of 2017, Andrew Little left the head of the party, two months before the legislative elections which should determine who will be the next Prime Minister. At that time, the right had held power for nine years. Jacinda Ardern is commissioned by the Labor Party to replace Andrew Little, becoming its youngest leader.
The Young Global Leader is riding on her popularity. Two months are enough to drain voting intentions in favor of one’s political party. New Zealanders seem to be suffering from “Jacindamania”, notes the press.
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To get elected, Jacinda Ardern formed an alliance with the New Zealand First (NZF) party, advocated a reduction in immigration, a renegotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement and a program to build 100,000 homes until to 2027. During her campaign, she announced her intention to ban foreigners from buying homes in New Zealand, strengthen public mental health services and increase the minimum wage. Measures accompanied, naturally, by a carbon neutrality objective.
She did not obtain a majority (35.7%) and was therefore forced to form a coalition with the NZF and the Green Party to become Prime Minister. She also takes charge of the National Security and Intelligence, Culture and Vulnerable Children portfolios.
Its first political crisis occurred in March 2019, after the terrorist attack committed by a lone man who targeted mosques and Muslim people in Christchurch, which left 51 dead. In response, Jacinda Ardern banned semi-automatic weapons and launched a weapons buyback program, which earned her a lot of criticism.
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The same year, she initiated the agreement on climate change, international trade and sustainability, and continued her policy deemed “liberal”, by legalizing the right to abortion, euthanasia and proposing the legalization of cannabis for recreational use.
His cohabitation with the NZF was tumultuous. The party is also blocking its policy of access to housing. A real estate project in Auckland, on land dear to the Aborigines, is tarnishing its image. Added to this is its commitment to the climate fight. Jacinda Ardern is criticized for her concession to the agricultural sector for not including methane in gas emission reduction targets.
Despite her missteps, she is New Zealand’s most popular prime minister in a century. She is, logically, seeking a second term in 2020. The elections are scheduled for September, then anticipated before, finally, being postponed to October due to the Covid pandemic. A godsend for Ardern. The first measures against the coronavirus are welcomed by its electorate, who continue to support it, despite galloping inflation and an economic recession not seen since the Second World War. An Australian think tank ranks its management as the best among 98 countries.
She was re-elected on November 6, 2020, this time obtaining a majority with Labor. If she retains the support of the Green Party, she can get rid of the NZF. The way is clear to undertake the rest of its reforms. But Jacinda Ardern and her government were quickly overtaken by the economic crisis, inflation and, above all, broken electoral promises, particularly her housing construction program. Of the 100,000 promised homes, only 1,300 have been built… His containment and vaccination measures against Covid have further reduced his popularity rating.
Genghis Khan-style management of the epidemic
When the vaccination campaign begins in February 2021, New Zealanders have already experienced a first confinement. Eight months earlier, Jacinda Ardern promised Bill and Melinda Gates a whopping $37 million to participate in the development of a vaccine against the coronavirus. Fifteen of these 37 million dollars were intended for the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and 7 million for the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), structures of the Gates Foundation. Its contribution to the COVAX program, led by CEPI, GAVI and WHO, amount to ultimately at $26 million.
At the end of 2020, the Prime Minister announced the purchase of additional doses of two vaccines, AstraZeneca and Novavax, after those of Pfizer/BioNTech and Janssen already acquired. She also announces that vaccination will be compulsory, particularly for teachers, security personnel and health personnel. At the start of 2021, it kept New Zealand’s borders closed to non-citizens and non-residents, requiring vaccination for citizens wishing to enter the territory.
Elle impose during the summer a new national confinement and this measure, like the vaccination obligation, gave rise to demonstrations rejecting these measures deemed “disproportionate” and calling on the government to react to social problems. Protests that Jacinda Ardern describes as “imported” and which will gently but firmly push her towards the exit.
In November 2022, she announced her intention to run for a third term. Her image, already damaged, was further tarnished when she insulted a political opponent, believing her microphone to be turned off. Worn out and having fulfilled her YGL contract, she announced her resignation in January 2023, affirming “not having enough energy”. His resignation comes shortly after the publication of unfavorable polls, in a context marked by a deteriorated economic situation and a drop in confidence in his government and its globalist policy…
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