New Zealand's Ardern wins 2nd term in election

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NEW ZEALAND, 18 October 2020, (TON): New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won a second term in office on Saturday in an election landslide of historic proportions.

With most votes counted, Ardern’s liberal Labour Party was winning 49% of the vote compared to 27% for its main challenger, the conservative National Party.

In a victory speech in front of hundreds of cheering supporters in Auckland, Ardern said her party had gotten more support from New Zealanders that at any time in at least 50 years. She said that it was not an ordinary election and was full of uncertainty and anxiety.” Ardern promised not to take her new supporters for granted and to govern for all New Zealanders.

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