New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern gets second term with historic victory

New Zealand chose to grant Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern a second time in office on Saturday. Prime Minister Ardern's liberal Labour Party acquired a historic victory by obtaining 49 percent of the vote in contrast to the 27 percent secured by its primary competitor, the conservative National Party.

This victory has been historic as it is the first time since New Zealand executed a proportional polling system 24 years ago that a single political party (Labour) gained an outright preponderance of support in Parliament.

Jacinda Ardern was granted to the top job in 2017 when her Labour Party allied with two other political parties.

However, Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and his New Zealand First party was balloted out by New Zealanders.

This time around, the Labour Party will be capable of convenient form a government on its own, which makes it a first for the party in 50 years of its political career.

Its collaborator Green Party gained 7.5 percent of the electors while the libertarian ACT Party succeeded to improve its majority percentage to 8 percent this time around.

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The 2020 general elections were fought on two key issues- legalisation of marijuana and euthanasia. Results to both referendums will be declared on October 30.

Greeting followers in Auckland, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced in her victory speech, "This has not been an average election, and it's not a common time. It's been full of perplexity and anxiety, and we set out to be an antidote to that."

Associated Press excerpted Ardern as declaring, "We are living in a frequently polarized world, a place where more and more, people have lost the strength to see one another's point of opinion. I believe in this election, New Zealanders have proved that this is not who we are."