Ardern will resign on Wednesday (Hacking Hopkins/Getty)
The resigned New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda ArdernToday, Tuesday, her people bid a warm farewell on her last day as prime minister, and she spoke of the kindness and sympathy New Zealanders showed her, but said she was ready to be a sister and a mother.
Ardern, 42, arrived at a gathering of politicians and Maori elders in the small town of Ratana, north of the capital Wellington, and was immediately surrounded by supporters seeking to take pictures with her. This came days after she announced, which shocked the world, that she “no longer had the energy” to lead the country and that she would step down.
“Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the greatest honor of my life,” Ardern said in a speech to the rally.
She will resign tomorrow, Wednesday, and he will be replaced Chris Hipkins New Labor leader. “I am ready to take on many things,” she said. “I am ready to be a backseat MP. I am ready to be a sister and a mother.”
Her daughter, Neff, is four years old and will start school in June.
(Reuters)
