New Zealand: microphone captures Jacinda Ardern insulting opposition deputy

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardernwas caught calling an opposition legislator an “arrogant idiot” in the Parliamentin a private comment caught on the microphone of his seat.

After the controversy, Ardern wrote a text message apologizing to the deputy David Seymourof the liberal party ACT New Zealand, which he had insulted after an intervention by him at the parliamentary headquarters in Wellington.

Speaking to local media, Seymour, whose party has ten members in the Legislature, said the prime minister wrote him a message saying “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have said that” and that he responded by wishing her a Merry Christmas and that the matter was already settled.

The start of the controversy

In his speech before the insult, the deputy, of neoliberal ideology, asked Jacinda Ardern by inflation, crime and challenged her to count at least once in which government you made a mistake, recognized it, and did something to correct it.

The Labor Prime Minister responded that her Government He was not perfect but he made decisions thinking of the common good and, when he sat down, he commented in a low voice with a colleague from his bench that the deputy was an “arrogant prick” (“arrogant idiot”), but the microphones caught the expression.

ACT New Zealand, which advocates lower taxes, is tough on crime and is anti-climate crisis policies, got more than 219,000 votes, or 7.58 per cent, in the 2020 election, a huge leap compared to the 13,075 votes obtained in 2017.

Under the leadership of Jacinda Ardern, the Labor Party, with a progressive ideology, won the 2017 elections with a simple majority and then obtained an absolute majority in 2020, winning 65 of the 120 deputies in Parliament. (EFE)

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