The rising cost of living dominated campaigning with voters New Zealanders ending six years of Labour Party rule, the latter half of which was dominated by the country’s strict response to the coronavirus pandemic that successfully kept infections low but battered the economy.
With more than 98% of votes counted, the center-right National Party, led by former airline executive Christopher Luxon, had amassed around 40% of ballots, according to New Zealand’s Electoral Commission. A dejected Hipkins told supporters that Labour did not have enough votes to form a government.
“The result tonight is not one that any of us wanted,” he said, according to RNZ. “I gave it my all to turn the tide of history but alas, it was not enough.” Luxon said New Zealanders had “voted for change” and that his party would now get to work trying to form a coalition.“Tonight you have given us the mandate to take New Zealand forward,” he told supporters. Coalitions are the norm under New Zealand’s mixed-member proportional system, which was introduced in 1996.
The nationalist NZ First party and its leader Winston Peters could potentially become kingmaker in a coalition administration alongside the libertarian, right-wing Act Party. The only party to win a majority of votes and govern alone in the current political system was Labour in 2020, when Ardern won a landslide second term buoyed by her success at handling the country’s coronavirus outbreak. But Ardern announced her shock resignation in January, saying she no longer had enough fuel in the tank to contest an election, and passed the reins of her party on to Hipkins.
OMG It really is spelled AshneNAZI I thought you were making that part up!
WOW!! Says it right there in their name! They don't hide anything!
I’m guesssing you did NAZI thst reference before? Yes. AshkeNAZI. It’s right there.
Here’s one that may not have been noticed.
In WWII the Germans, who were actually Prussians (see: Prussiagate) were trying to “create the perfect Aryan master race”.
“Aryan” is the old Persian word for “Iranian”.
Why would they be calling for that, while working campaigns in North Africa with Islam?
One of these would be weird enough, but both of them?
Past that, Ashkenaz is the son of Gomer, son of Japheth, son of Noah (Genesis 10:3). “Anti-Semitic” comes from Shem, who was notable in the Bible for not being Japeth.
Judah, the original “Jew”, was of Shem’s line, so how are the Ashkenazis “Jewish” when they are descended from Japheth rather than Shem?
WHAT.
The last paragraph is confusing. Those Bible lineage stuff confuses me
Ashkenazis make up 83-85 percent of Jews worldwide.
Jews are descendants of Judah, from whom the name comes.
Judah was descended from Shem, one of Noah’s 3 sons.
Ashkenazim, from whom “Ashkenazi” comes, was a son of Gomer, who was a descendant of Japheth, a different son of Noah.
I was only intending to point out the “Aryan” part with regard to Germany, but noticed the lineages don’t match up while I was typing something else.
This is by no means a proof of anything, but what in the world is going on with the names?
If anyone has a stronger Biblical history background than me who can explain this, please do.
I’m just someone who can see when “2 = 2” gets written down.
I do believe, in accordance with my best understanding of both the old and New Testament, that non-Jews can be grafted in, so there are surely Ashkenazi who are Israel either way.
The Bible clearly states that salvation is available to all nations, if only the heart be circumcised.