she hasn't really spoken about it much since stepping down but it's believed to be a big, big part of why jacinda ardern stepped down from the PM role.
Which wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if it's 100% true.
I missed that! I do not follow New Zealand politics as closely as I do Mexico and the US. It’s a low key “wish I could move there” aspirational political interest.
It was more the hundreds of thousands of assholes who didn't vote here who were the problem, and I don't know how to fix that :(
although mandatory voting like australia would be nice.