New Zealand gets its youngest leader in 150 years
20 October 2017 |
1:00 pm
New Zealand will get its youngest prime minister in more than 150 years after the small, nationalist New Zealand First Party agreed to form a new government with Labour Party leader Jacinda Ardern, ending the National Party's decade in power.
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