New Zealand Defeats Ardern s Party, Electing Conservative Coalition – The New York Times

After an election campaign of fits and starts, in which neither major party appeared to offer much solace to a weary nation, voters in New Zealand on Saturday ousted the party once led by Jacinda Ardern and elected the country s most right-wing government in a generation, handing victory to a coalition of two conservative parties.

New Zealand s next prime minister will be Christopher Luxon, a former chief executive of Air New Zealand, whose center-right National Party will lead a coalition with Act, a smaller libertarian party.

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