New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern resigns a month after hot mic insult

1/19/23
 
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1/18/23:

Jacinda Ardern was New Zealand’s youngest leader when she took office in 2017 and guided the nation through a series of disasters, including COVID-19.

In August 2021, the country was put on lockdown for at least three days after a single case of the coronavirus was found in one community. 

In December, she was caught on a hot mic calling opposition leader David Seymour an “arrogant p—-” during an exchange in which Seymour asked if Ardern could “give an example of her making a mistake, apologizing for it properly and fixing it,” The Guardian reported. 

Ardern replied by acknowledging the difficulties of her government’s “managed isolation” plan for COVID-19, but she told her deputy, Grant Robertson, that Seymour was “such an arrogant p—-” as she sat down – the microphones caught the comment.

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