The health record of the fight against the Covid-19 epidemic is excellent in New Zealand, much better than in many countries.
He is expected to contribute to Jacinda Ardern's re-election as prime minister following the October 17 elections.
The polls indeed give this Labor of 40 years largely winner while the country deplores only 25 deaths for a population of 5 million inhabitants.
On the economic front, however, the results are ambiguous.
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Jacinda Ardern is one of the women leaders of nations whose management was greeted by Christine Lagarde on July 22.
The boss of the European Central Bank (ECB), who stressed that
"women tend to do a better job"
, said the young New Zealander had
"communicated well"
.
But the activity of this small country of the antipodes, located almost at the same level as France in terms of GDP per capita, plunged.
In the first quarter, it had already recorded its worst decline since
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