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New Zealand PM Ardern announces she will resign next month

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Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern delivers her speech during an unveiling ceremony for a Maori kuwaha carving sculpture, named Tane Te Waiora, at the Cloud Forest, Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, April 19, 2022. How Hwee Young, EPA-EFE/File" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/overseas/05/11/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-epe.jpg"/><figcaption>New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern delivers her speech during an unveiling ceremony for a Maori kuwaha carving sculpture, named Tane Te Waiora, at the Cloud Forest, Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, April 19, 2022. <em>How Hwee Young, EPA-EFE/File</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Thursday she will resign next month.</p><p>&quot;For me it&#x27;s time,&quot; she said at a meeting of members of her Labour Party. &quot;I just don&#x27;t have enough in the tank for another four years.&quot;</p><p>Ardern, who became prime minister in a coalition government in 2017, then led her centre-left Labour Party to a comprehensive victory in an election three years later, has seen her party and personal popularity drop in recent polls. </p><p>In her first public appearance since parliament went into its summer recess a month ago, she told Labour&#x27;s annual caucus retreat that during the break she had hoped to find the energy to continue as leader, &quot;but I have not been able to do that&quot;. </p><p>Ardern said the next general election will be held on Saturday, October 14 and she would continue as an electorate MP until then. </p><p>&quot;I am not leaving, because I believe we cannot win the next election, but because I believe we can and will,&quot; she said.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/05/11/22/new-zealand-fully-reopens-in-august-ardern">New Zealand fully reopens to the world in August: Ardern</a></li></ul><p>Ardern said her resignation would take effect no later than February 7, adding that the Labour caucus would vote on a new leader on January 22. </p><p>Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson said he would not be putting his name forward.</p><p>Ardern said there was no secret behind her resignation.</p><p>&quot;I am human. We give as much as we can for as long as we can and then it&#x27;s time. And for me, it&#x27;s time.</p><p>&quot;I am leaving because with such a privileged job comes a big responsibility. The responsibility to know when you are the right person to lead -- and also when you&#x27;re not.&quot;</p><div><strong>cf/djw/cwl</strong></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2425321" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said her resignation would take effect no later than February 7.