THE Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardernhe left his country’s Parliament this Wednesday with an emotional and very personal speech during which he also called for an opening of politics towards those who do not consider themselves a typical political leader.
“You can be anxious, sensitive, kind, mother or mother, nerd, crybaby, huggist, you can be all of those things and be a leader at the same time”was the most heartfelt segment of the now former New Zealand official.
Though later the tone blended with the political world he lived with.
“I thought I had to change dramatically to survive as a politician. That was not the case,” he said, revealing his anxieties as prime minister: “A role I never thought I’d have to play.” And she talked about worries that made her suffer, like her not being able to eat when she had to answer her questions.
On her last day in parliament, Ardern leaves behind a complex legacy: her successes in the response to Covid, the Christchurch disasters and the terrorist attacks on New Zealand’s Muslim community have won her international recognition and acclaim, but slow progress. and the climate emergency has diminished their results, the agency says HANDLE.
Ardern announced his resignation in January, explaining it “no more energy” continue to govern after five and a half years of mandate and nine months before the legislative elections.
“I am human”he has declared.
The former prime minister’s farewell speech was greeted with a standing ovation and deputies and the public stood up to sing the waiata, a traditional Maori song, which reads “Tutiro mai ngā iwi”, which means “Get in row, people, all of us, seek the knowledge and love of one another.”
Ardern, in 2017, at the age of 37, became the youngest politician in the world to occupy the head of governmentand in this regard he recalled in his speech that taking on the job was a sort of “cross between a sense of duty to direct a moving freight train (…) and being run over by one”.
What will Jacinda Ardern’s new life be like?
The former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, will assume the honorary role of special envoy for the “Chirstchurch Appeal”, an initiative she herself promoted with the aim of remove hateful and extremist content from the internetfollowing the partial broadcast on social networks of the massacre that took place in that city.
It will also join the Earthshot Award Board of Trustees – chaired by Prince William of England – and will award prizes to distinguished champions in the fight against the climate crisis.
Ardern, whose charisma and use of social networks has generated a wave of admiration, has also promised to be home when his daughter Neve enters elementary school and to marry romantic partner Clarke Gayford, “his guardian” and who will she is busy with household chores and raising your little girl.
Source: Clarin
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