Updated January 19, 2023 — 11.28am first published at 11.09am

New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern to resign

Jacinda Ardern has announced she will resign as New Zealand prime minister no later than February 7.
She also announced that the general election will be held on Saturday October 14.
The leader said she took time to re-evaluate her future over the summer period and came to the decision.
“I decided to give myself a chance to really reflect if I had what was needed... I’d be doing a disservice to New Zealand if I continued,” she said.
Ardern choked back tears saying she did not have the energy to seek re-election.
“I know what this job takes. And I know that I no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice,” she said later adding “I’m a politician who is first and foremost human”.
Ardern was speaking from the Labour Party caucus retreat in Napier. She said her colleagues, to whom she spoke on Wednesday night, weren’t surprised.
She said she “needed to let someone else take on this job” and still believed the party would win the upcoming election.
Earlier in the day, across town, National Party leader Christopher Luxon revealed a reshuffle.

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