New Zealand PM Ardern to announce government on November 2
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Read< 1minuteFile Photo:AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND – OCTOBER 18: Re-elected New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern talks to reporters from a cafe near her home in Auckland, New Zealand on 18 October 2020, the morning after the Labour Party’s resounding win in the 2020 General Election. The 2020 New Zealand General Election was originally due to be held on Saturday 19 September but was delayed due to the re-emergence of COVID-19 in the community. (Photo by Lynn Grieveson – Newsroom/Newsroom via Getty Images).
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Saturday she will announce her new government on Monday after offering the Green Party two ministerial portfolios outside of cabinet as part of a proposed cooperation agreement.
Ardern delivered earlier this month the biggest election victory for her center-left Labour Party in half a century. Although she no longer needs support to govern, coalitions are the norm in New Zealand as parties look to build consensus.
Under the agreement offered to the Green Party – one of Ardern government’s coalition partners prior to the election – the two portfolios would be held by the Green Party’s co-leaders.
