Jacinda ardern (1980) is a New Zealand politician and Prime Minister. He completed a degree in Communication in which he specialized in the area of Public Relations and Politics. Upon being elected, she was the youngest woman to serve as Head of State..
She has been the leader of the New Zealand Labor Party since 2017. Ardern started in politics as a researcher in the office of Prime Minister Helen Clark, and later worked in England under Tony Blair..
Her first popularly elected position in the New Zealand government was that of a Member of Parliament in 2008. Ardern became a mother while serving as Prime Minister in 2018..
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Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern was born on July 26, 1980 in Hamilton, New Zealand. She is the second daughter of Ross Ardern and his wife, Laurell Bottomley. His family was based in Murupara during his early childhood..
In those years, Jacinda's father worked as a police officer. They then moved to Morrinsville, where Ardern attended elementary and high school. In 1999 the young woman entered the University of Waikato, which was a higher education center in her area..
He studied a degree in Communication (Communication Studies), with a mention in Politics and Public Relations. While he was studying he began to get involved with the Labor Party; in fact, she joined it in 1999 when she was 17 years old and became one of the youth leaders.
Ardern graduated in 2001 and began working in the office of Helen Clark, who at the time was serving as the 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand. Then he spent time in New York City and got involved with social causes there..
Towards the end of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's rule, Jacinda Ardern began working for his administration as a policy advisor. However, he did not get to know the British Labor leader..
In 2007 Jacinda Ardern was selected as president of the International Union of Socialist Youth. That same year she participated in parliamentary elections, was ranked 20th on the Labor Party list and won a seat in Parliament..
His popularity began to rise as he established himself as the face of Labor youth in New Zealand. In 2011 and 2014, she was again selected as a Member of Parliament by the list of deputies method..
A nominal vacancy for parliament was opened in the Mount Albert constituency in early 2017 and Jacinda Ardern was elected by a large majority of voters at that time. After her victory, she was selected as the leader of the Labor Party for the next general election..
The National Party won more votes in the general election, but the alliance between the Green Party, New Zealand First and the Labor Party allowed a coalition government to be created with Ardern as prime minister..
The New Zealander took office on October 26, 2017 and appointed Winston Peters (of New Zealand First) as Deputy Prime Minister. Ardern is the third woman to hold the post of prime minister in her country.
In 2018 it became known that the Labor leader was pregnant and for the birth of her daughter she asked for a six-week maternity leave between June and August of that year. At that time, Winston Peters took over the New Zealand government..
Jacinda Ardern's partner and father of her daughter is presenter Clarke Gayford, they both began dating in 2013. They currently live together and have been engaged since 2019.
During the Ardern government there were two terrorist attacks in the city of Christchurch. They were carried out on March 15, 2019 and were directed against the Muslim community.
The shootings took place at the Al Noor Mosque and the Linwood Mosque. The first attack was broadcast live on Facebook Live by the author, Brenton Harrison Tarrant, a white supremacist..
In Al Noor he left 44 dead, then the attacker got into his vehicle and fled, minutes later he reached the second location, Linwood, where he murdered 7 more people. There he was arrested thanks to one of those present, named Abdul Aziz Wahabzada, and upon the arrival of the police.
Ardern declared a national mourning and called Tarrant's attack one of New Zealand's darkest days. The prime minister also ordered that awards of bravery be conferred on the police officers involved in the arrest of the terrorist..
Also, the Ardern government highlighted that New Zealand's gun regulation laws needed reform. In April 2019, a ban was passed on many semi-automatic weapons and parts used to convert manual weapons to semi-automatic..
In early 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, popularly known as coronavirus or COVID-19, began to spread. Jacinda Ardern announced that everyone entering the country as of March 15 must comply with a mandatory 14-day quarantine.
Since March 20, the borders were closed for all those who were not New Zealand citizens or residents of the country. Jacinda Ardern's government has been praised as one of the most effective in the world in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic..
New Zealand had a total of 1,949 probable and confirmed cases, of which 25 resulted in deaths as of October 29, 2020.
In New Zealand, general elections were held on October 17, 2020 and the Labor Party to which Jacinda Ardern belongs won the victory and took 64 seats in Parliament. In this way, she obtained re-election to her second term as Prime Minister..
In addition, with the number of Labor MPs who got the position in the last contest, they are able to form a majority government without the need for alliances with other parties..
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