Jacinda Ardern meddelar sin avgång (2023-01-19)

Youthquake rumbles to a stop? Support for the left falls among New Zealand’s young voters
Bucking global trends, polls find young voter support higher for National and right coalition than Labour as election nears

If the law was approved, New Zealand would join a handful of countries – including Scotland, Wales, Argentina, Austria and Cuba – in allowing those as young as 16 to vote in some or all elections. In some cases, change has been prompted by youth campaigns for a greater say on issues affecting young people’s long-term futures, such as the climate crisis.

Tired, broke and eager for change, New Zealand expected to shift right at coming election

In what could be one of the Covid era’s most abrupt reversals of political fortune, polls on New Zealand’s election on 14 October suggest voters appear ready to abandon the country’s centre-left government – once wildly popular – in favour of a centre-right coalition whose policies would permanently draw a line under the Jacinda Ardern era of politics.

New Zealand tightens visa rules after migration hits ‘unsustainable’ levels

Rightwing NZ government accused of ‘war on nature’ as it takes axe to climate policies