The New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardernwas caught this tuesday calling an “arrogant jerk” a opposition deputy in parliamentin a private comment taken from the microphone of his chair.
After the controversy, Ardern wrote a text apologizing to MP David Seymour, of the liberal ACT New Zealand party, whom he had insulted after his speech at the parliamentary seat in Wellington.
In statements to local media, Seymour, his party’s only MP in the Legislature, indicated that the prime minister wrote him a message saying “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have said that” and that he replied wishing you a Merry Christmas and that the matter is resolved.
In his speech before the insult, the deputy, of neoliberal ideologyhe asked Ardern about inflation, crime and challenged her to count at least one time the government went wrong, recognized it and did something about it.
the common good
The Labor prime minister replied that his government was not perfect, but that He made decisions with the common good in mind. and, sitting down, he commented in a low voice to a colleague of his bench that the deputy was a “cocky arrogant” (“arrogant cocoon”), but the microphones caught the expression.
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ACT New Zealand, who defends the lowering of taxes, strong hand against crime e he is against the policies against the climate crisishe got more than 219,000 votes, 7.58 percent, in the 2020 election, a big leap from the 13,075 votes he got in 2017.
Under Ardern’s leadership, the Progressive Labor Party won the 2017 election with a simple majority and then won an overall majority in 2020, winning 65 of the 120 Members of Parliament.
