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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Her party pushed her out. Her popularity was in the tank, she'd become pretty hated, and they were looking at a devastating loss in the next election.
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Are we sure that's all it was? I've read several articles that mention the amount of hatred and threats leaders like her and also in Canada and the U.S. receive from the right/far-right now. It's gross.
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And initially, her management of Covid-19 saw her lead her Labour Party to a landslide victory in 2020, but as draconian lockdowns kept New Zealanders at home and its borders closed, her popularity began to wane.
She has been the subject of often-vile abuse by the anti-vax movement and other populist-inspired right-wing protest groups in New Zealand.
It was evident in her resignation remarks on Thursday that the pressure had had an impact and caused her to doubt whether she could lead her party into the election scheduled for October.
"This summer, I had hoped to find a way to prepare not just for another year but another term because that is what this year requires; I have not been able to do that," she said.
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So, after the 2020 landslide, no longer in coalition with the conservative NZ First Party, Labour launched a raft of reforms covering water, the health system, resource management and planning, broadcasting and climate change.
Added to that was a renewed emphasis on Maori rights under the Treaty of Waitangi and decolonisation, which saw a new history curriculum for schools and increasing moves to co-Maori-European governance of public bodies.
Each reform provoked opposition, and by the middle of last year, after a prolonged anti-vax protest camp on Parliament's lawn had finally been removed after a violent confrontation between protesters and police, a substantial anti-Ardern mood was evident, particularly in provincial New Zealand.
Data released in June last year indicated that police-recorded threats against Ms Ardern had almost tripled over three years.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64328433
A mother with a young child continually getting rape and death threats, I don't blame her one iota for getting out, regardless of what any polling said.