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Jacinda Ardern: "Does this happen to anyone else?"
Many working parents should be familiar with it.
The offspring are put to bed - and instead of after work, there is still work to be done on the computer.
That was also the case with Jacinda Ardern when she last participated in a Facebook livestream in the evening.
Now Ardern doesn't have just any job, she is the Prime Minister of New Zealand.
The stream should be about the corona restrictions in the island state.
That worked quite well until suddenly, outside the camera field, unrest in the Ardern house became noticeable.
It was daughter Neve, three years old, who was obviously not quite ready for bed yet,
"You should be in bed, my darling," Jacinda Ardern then also says to her daughter.
"It's bedtime, hop back to bed and I'll come and see you in a moment," she asks the child.
After some back and forth, the situation finally seems settled.
"Does that happen to anyone else?" Asks the politician into the camera.
Here is the complete video, appearance by Neve from about minute 2:55:
Then Ardern turns back to the audience and says, visibly amused, “Sorry to everyone.
That was a bedtime mishap, wasn't it? ”Finally she explains that her mother is actually in the house and should bring the little one to bed.
Then the stream continues until Neve has her second appearance and asks again for the mother.
"I'm sorry it took so long," is their answer.
With this, Ardern declares the live stream to be over.
First big appearance at the UN
Daughter Neve had already generated considerable media interest in the past, including when mother Jacinda brought the little girl to the UN General Assembly in New York in 2018.
While the then 38-year-old gave a speech, her partner Clarke Gayford sat with the baby in the audience.
Gayford and Ardern's daughter was born in Auckland in mid-June 2018.
The Prime Minister ended her baby break six weeks after the birth.
The fact that heads of government have a child during their term of office is quite an exception worldwide.
Before the New Zealander, there was only one prime minister who became a mother during her tenure: the Pakistani Benazir Bhutto in 1990.
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