New Zealand’s 2020 general election, experts are telling us, will be like no other in history. And, if opinion polls are to be believed, Labour is so far ahead, its strategists only need to keep Jacinda Ardern front and centre of the campaign for the party to break out the champagne on the night of September 19.
Jack Vowles, a professor of political science at Wellington’s Victoria University, says the election comes in the wake of a remarkable government-led act of building collective solidarity that has sacrificed businesses and livelihoods in the cause of protecting those who would have been most vulnerable to Covid-19.
“By a combination of luck and good crisis management, the elimination policy has worked. NZ is among the first Covid-hit countries to return to near normality.In the process, the popularity of Jacinda Ardern and her government has soared. The initial response to a crisis…
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