Jan. 20 () –
The Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, has confessed that she feels some relief and that she has been able to sleep well for the first time in a long time after announcing her resignation from office.
Among a “range of emotions”, the still New Zealand president has shared that she is also sad, although she does not doubt her decision, which she announced last Wednesday at a press conference, according to the newspaper ‘Stuff’.
“I have slept well for the first time in a long time. But I am between a range of emotions. I feel sad, but I also have a sense of relief,” Ardern said in response to questions from the press.
Likewise, she has detailed that she and her family feel overwhelmed by the responses she has received after her announcement, since people from all over the country, as well as international leaders, have dedicated a message to the president.
Ardern, 42, took office as prime minister in August 2017, becoming the youngest person in the country’s history to hold the post.
He led the Labor Party by the hand in 2017 from its worst levels of popularity to power, basically at the blow of a charisma that the polls continue to respect in general today, despite the wear and tear suffered in recent months due to economic variables. like inflation.
Labor, who repeated their victory in 2020, based their exponential growth on a leader who did not hesitate to claim herself as a feminist, republican and progressive, and who resembled the new generation of world leaders who, like the French Emmanuel Macron or the Canadian Justin Trudeau, asked for passage in a changing scenario.
A critic of immigration and a supporter of new trade regulations, Ardern experienced her great political challenge with the COVID-19 pandemic. First applauded for the ability of her government to reduce cases to practically zero, the strategy proved inapplicable with the emergence of more contagious variants.
The pandemic also marked her personal life to some extent, as Ardern was forced to cancel her wedding after announcing new restrictions. “I am no different from thousands of other New Zealanders,” she said in January 2022, the still prime minister, who still has not married.
