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An election like no other: with 100 days to go, can Jacinda Ardern maintain her extraordinary popularity?
New Zealand’s 2020 general election will be like no other in our history.
It comes in the wake of a remarkable government-led act of collective solidarity that has sacrificed businesses and livelihoods in the cause of protecting those who would have been most vulnerable to COVID-19: the old, those with health conditions, disadvantaged people in crowded housing, Māori and ethnic minority communities.
- Jack Vowles
- The Conversation
By a combination of luck and good crisis management, the…