Jacinda Ardern

Jacinda Ardern will step down from her role on February 7, with a general election called for October 14.

I had the privilege of being alongside NZ in a crisis and they placed their faith in me," she said. Ms Ardern grew up in the rural town of Morrinsville, on the country's North Island, and went on to live in the UK where she worked as a public servant. "I know what this job takes. Ms Ardern said she had the support of her family to continue, but they were also on board with her decision. Ms Ardern choked back tears on Thursday as she said she did not have the energy to seek re-election. - Ms Ardern choked back tears saying she did not have the energy to seek re-election

Jacinda Ardern announced her shock resignation and retirement from politics while also calling an election on 14 October.

"She has demonstrated that empathy and insight are powerful leadership qualities. "I know what this job takes. "It has been the honour of my working life to have supported Jacinda as Minister of Finance and as Deputy Prime Minister," he said in a statement. Ms Ardern choked back tears on Thursday as she said she did not have the energy to seek re-election. - She said the challenge of the past years has "taken its toll". - Ms Ardern choked back tears as she said she did not have the energy to seek re-election.

An emotional Jacinda Ardern says she no longer has "enough in the tank" after nearly six years as leader.

And that you can be your own kind of leader - one who knows when it's time to go," she said. Deputy leader Grant Robertson said he would not contest the leadership vote, which will occur on Sunday. have been taxing because of the weight, the sheer weight and continual nature of them. "These events... "I had hoped that I would find what I needed to carry on over that period but, unfortunately, I haven't, and I would be doing a disservice to New Zealand to continue," she told reporters. Jacinda Ardern has announced she will quit as New Zealand prime minister next month, saying she no longer has "enough in the tank" to lead.

An emotional Ardern revealed she wouldn't have the energy for a new term after the next election.

“Beyond that, I have no plan, no next steps. “This will give me a bit of time in the electorate before I depart, and also spare them and the country a by-election,” she told reporters. Speaking from the Labour Party caucus retreat in Napier, she said she “needed to let someone else take on this job” and still believed the party would win the upcoming election. It’s that simple.” She led her party to a landslide victory in the 2020 election, capitalising on her success in making New Zealand one of the countries with the world’s lowest COVID-19 death rates. Choking back tears, Ardern said she would have done a disservice to New Zealanders if she continued in the job.

Jacinda Ardern will step down from her role on February 7, with a general election called for October 14.

I had the privilege of being alongside NZ in a crisis and they placed their faith in me," she said. Ms Ardern grew up in the rural town of Morrinsville, on the country's North Island, and went on to live in the UK where she worked as a public servant. "I know what this job takes. Ms Ardern said she had the support of her family to continue, but they were also on board with her decision. Ms Ardern choked back tears on Thursday as she said she did not have the energy to seek re-election. - Ms Ardern choked back tears saying she did not have the energy to seek re-election

Jacinda Ardern entered politics with big ambitions, but in the end so much of her time as leader was spent leading her country through crisis, writes Emily ...

To win from here would have been the fight of her political life. or just really make their day-to-day lives easier in terms of their economic wellbeing and their ability to make ends meet," she said. I had the privilege of being alongside New Zealand in a crisis and they placed their faith in me." "We really saw Arden's Labour government come up against these realities of having to suddenly act like there had been no COVID crisis … It is that simple." "It is not an easy time.

Jacinda Ardern has been branded by some as the "COVID lockdown queen" as she quit politics on Thursday. The New Zealand Prime Minister made the announcement ...

You are a source of inspiration to me and many others. I’m wishing you and your family nothing but the best, my friend. [pic.twitter.com/rYyWkqSVSr] [January 19, 2023] She is one of the most dedicated, authentic, values-driven people I have had the pleasure of knowing. It has been a privilege to work alongside Jacinda Ardern over the last five years of our government. [pic.twitter.com/72Q5p9GZzg] [January 19, 2023] The difference you have made is immeasurable. “I am human. Jacinda is a great leader, the hardest-working person I have ever met," she said. [January 19, 2023] I don’t blame Jacinda Ardern for resigning. [pic.twitter.com/QJ64mNCJMI] [January 19, 2023]

Speaking to her party's annual caucus, 42-year-old Ardern said "it's time" for her to move on and that she "no longer had enough in the tank" for her ...

And I know that I no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice. Speaking to her party's annual caucus, 42-year-old Ardern said "it's time" for her to move on and that she "no longer had enough in the tank" for her premiership. Her last day in the office will be Feb. Ardern became the world's youngest female leader in 2017 at the age of 37. "The responsibility to know when you are the right person to lead and also when you are not. She also called on a general election on Oct.

October 26, 2017: Sworn in as New Zealand's 40th prime minister, seven weeks after becoming opposition leader and less than seven months after caucus ...

However, her zero-tolerance strategy was abandoned once challenged by new variants and vaccines became available. She faced tough criticism that the strategy had been too strict. 2020: Lauded globally for her initial handling of the COVID-19 pandemic after New Zealand managed for months to stop the virus at its borders.

Jacinda has been a fierce advocate for New Zealand and a great friend to Australia. She has been an inspiration to so many and, on a personal level, ...

From prime minister to prime minister, from friend to friend, I wish Jacinda and her family well in the next stage of their lives. May the example of her kindness and strength continue to cast its glow in a world that really needs it. Even the way Jacinda has brought it to a close has been a demonstration of her qualities. Nevertheless, we have come to the end of a chapter. She matched all this with action, with a determined pursuit of justice and with gun reforms to keep New Zealanders safe. Throughout it all, Jacinda has been a fierce advocate for New Zealand and a great friend to Australia.

New Zealand's prime minister set the standard through tough times, but knew the upcoming election would be the most gruelling yet.

“And that you can be your own kind of leader – one who knows when it’s time to go.” “I know there’ll be much discussion in the aftermath of this decision as to what the so called ‘real reason’ was. “I know what this job takes, and I know that I no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice. “The idea of kindness and empathy can hit its limits because politics is so often about tradeoffs,” Thomas says, particularly in the day-to-day struggles of governance, coalition-building and compromise. In the last general election in 2020, overwhelming support for the Covid response swept Labour to a near-unprecedented victory. That period won her enormous popularity, as well as “a global fame well out of proportion to New Zealand’s size”, Manhire says. From her early days in the political arena Ardern had always expressed a distaste for the bitter scrapping and point-scoring associated with political contests, says Chapman. “She has extremely good emotional intelligence – and that was really the quality that was needed, particularly during Christchurch, but also during the pandemic,” says political commentator Ben Thomas, a former staffer for the previous National government. But the other reform efforts: to dramatically increase state housing numbers, revamp governance of ageing waterways, and settle on a mechanism to price agricultural emissions, have been mired in difficulty. Her political response – immediately denouncing the shooter as a terrorist and introducing bipartisan gun control legislation – came as a particularly sharp contrast to then-contemporary Donald Trump in the US. For many New Zealanders, they became a catchphrase of the early pandemic, when the country succeeded in Images of her clad in a hijab, hugging a woman at the mosque circled the globe.

An emotional Ardern revealed she wouldn't have the energy for a new term after the next election.

We need a fresh set of shoulders for the challenges of both this year and the next three. [Matthew Knott](/by/matthew-knott-hvf2k)is the foreign affairs and national security correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.Connect via And that you can be your own kind of leader - one who knows when it’s time to go.” We’ve made it easier to access education and training while improving the pay and conditions of workers. The decisions that had to be made have been constant and weighty. The Labour team are incredibly well placed to contest the next election. I have given my absolute all to being prime minister but it has also taken a lot out of me. We’ve turned around child poverty statistics and made the most significant increases in welfare support and public housing stock seen in many decades. You are a source of inspiration to me and many others.” All the bullies, the misogynists, the aggrieved. “Beyond that, I have no plan, no next steps. Her treatment, the pile on, in the last few months has been disgraceful and embarrassing.

A National win in New Zealand could bring minor changes to the relationship but the neighbours are expected to remain close no matter who the prime ...

Albanese previously committed to take [a more “commonsense” approach when cancelling New Zealand citizens’ visas](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/08/anthony-albanese-offers-new-zealanders-fresh-approach-on-voting-rights-in-australia-and-deportation-policy). She said she “no longer [had] enough in the tank” and wanted to spend more time with her family. “[Australia] will miss her, she’s been great in the Pacific … “The likelihood is National would have come into office in October even if [Ardern] stayed. Ayson said he expected a change in government would lead to “more continuity than change” in the relationship with Australia, and predicted a Christopher Luxon National government may be less likely to publicly agitate Canberra to alter migration rules. Ardern said on her first visit to meet Albanese that there had been “points of friction” and “tension” in the two countries’ relationship, a pointed reference to Morrison and the migration issue.

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.”

The New Zealand prime minister showed us a different way to lead, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff.

She wanted to show that there was a different way to lead, and she did so; at the height of her powers she made the world sit up and watch. To everything there is a season, and Ardern is saying that hers is passing. Her resignation speech sounded more like a recognition that leadership is by definition a finite process; that power is a series of impossibly tough choices, each of which inevitably involves burning some capital, until eventually there’s simply no more match to burn. Think of Donald Trump and his towering ego, so incapable of accepting the democratic verdict of the people that he [whipped up a mob](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/23/jan-6-panel-final-report-trump-capitol-attack) to storm the Capitol. By bowing out now, she is perhaps recognising not only that she has exhausted her own reserves but that her party’s best chance of retaining power this autumn may be under a leader free from the painful baggage she had accumulated over the last few years. If Ardern has felt painfully torn at times – and it’s a rare mother in a demanding job who doesn’t – then she didn’t spell that out in her leaving speech. And so Ardern becomes that rarest of unicorns, a politician with the emotional intelligence to jump instead of waiting to be pushed. She caught the millennial mood with her unifying response to a [terror attack in Christchurch](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/19/the-key-moments-of-jacinda-ardern-time-as-prime-minister-of-nz-new-zealand) and, with her appeal to New Zealanders to “ [be strong, and be kind](https://www.1news.co.nz/2020/03/17/be-strong-be-kind-we-will-be-ok-pms-message-in-face-of-coronavirus-impact/)” as they faced the Covid storm, she became the standard bearer for a gentler, more empathic model of leadership. [Boris Johnson scrabbling around](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/07/25/boris-johnson-tells-friend-dont-want-resign-will-stay-tory-members/) in the dirt last summer, clinging so stubbornly to his irrevocably stained premiership that even when he finally and grudgingly resigned, some wondered aloud if he really meant it. Like everyone else, New Zealanders are feeling the inflationary pinch, and polls suggest that her party will struggle in this year’s general election. So it is testament to Jacinda Ardern’s enduring skills that she has made it look almost easy. One of the hardest things in life is knowing when to stop.

New Zealand prime minister's decision to quit is understandable on a human level, but the politics of it is confounding.

That probably leaves the party with a figure such as Chris Hipkins, a strong minister, but not one who will draw some kind of huge contrast with the opposition leader, Christopher Luxon. Ardern’s exit will come as a shock to many international fans, who saw her as a beacon of progressive hope during the Trump years. But they now need a new prime minister, someone who can wrangle with the teeming mass of bureaucracy and lead the country on day one. Some will see her as Labour’s greatest postwar leader – a strong leader through massive crises who also gave the party its largest win in decades. Others will compare her unfavourably with someone like Helen Clark – a soldier for the party who stuck around through two losing election campaigns and three winning ones, remaking New Zealand significantly in her nine-year term of power. Ardern was facing a very steep hill at the October election, which explains more than any other reason her decision to leave.

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.

'The difference you have made is immeasurable,' says Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.

“I understand that she needs rest, and I wish her all the best in her life.” I’d be doing a disservice to New Zealand if I continued,” she told her party’s annual caucus meeting. “Her treatment, the pile-on, in the last few months has been disgraceful and embarrassing. Ardern became the world’s youngest female head of government when she was elected prime minister in 2017 at 37. On Thursday, Clark said she was deeply saddened by the news of her resignation. She has demonstrated that empathy and insight are powerful leadership qualities.”

Five years ago she became the second world leader to give birth while in office. Now, the New Zealand prime minister plans to step down.

No, none of that meant that she wasn’t up to the task. But if you prefer the optimistic take, the other lesson was that if citizens are willing to accept flexibility in how their leaders get the job done then they can have a leader like Jacinda Ardern. The article also misspelled the first name of Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin. “If I didn’t go, I imagine there would have been equal criticism,” she told the New Zealand Herald at the time, explaining the careful analysis that had gone into her decision. Could her global fans even name her accomplishments, or were we merely mesmerized by a leader who seemed to want to do things differently? What I remember mostly was the debate that raged over her breastfeeding choices.