Jacinda Ardern Resigns As New Zealand Prime Minister: ‘I No Longer Have Enough in the Tank’

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at the age of 37 made her the youngest female head of government in the world at the time, with her five-and-a-half-year tenure witnessing the Christchurch attacks, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the Whakaari eruption.

She also became only the second world leader to give birth while in office—following Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto in 1990—after welcoming her daughter, Neve Te Aroha, in 2018.

She later brought the three-month-old to a United Nations General Assembly in another historic moment.“For all our firsts, I’m proud we’re now a nation where girls don’t consider politics or political leadership extraordinary,” Ardern , guest edited by . “But I’ll be even more proud if that leadership of the future bucks the global trend and looks beyond borders, election cycles, and established ways of doing things.

For them, I hope we’ll see the exceptional finally becoming the rule, that kindness and compassion can be powerful and strong, and that we’re willing to face the changes we have to face, while staring down the ones we don’t.”News of Ardern’s departure has been met with a mixed response—with some seeing her resignation as a response to waning popularity as a result of strict Covid-19 restrictions and the cost-of-living crisis.